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Most duets are blood-chillingly bad ("A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock and Roll" by Donny and Marie Osmond springs to mind), and doubtless the mosquito's mating song ranks high among such perturbations. But the identification of a particular love ballad performed by Aedes aegypti, the mosquito...
"We've opened a new window of understanding on what mosquitoes are capable of doing," says Ronald Hoy, a professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell who participated in the research. The study may also present a new way of controlling the A. aegypti population. (See the top 10 animal...
Why the fuss over this particular mosquito's mating call? First off, the findings, published in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science, dispel a few former assumptions about A. aegypti's behavior: that the female is deaf and a passive participant in the mating ritual and that the...
Recording the love song of A. aegypti was a rather complex affair: the Cornell researchers had to chill the mosquitoes into unconsciousness, put them under a microscope, affix a pin about the width of a human hair to the back of the insects and place tiny electrodes on their Johnston...
Perhaps the most important implication of the Cornell group's efforts is that their discovery could one day be used to help control A. aegypti's population. Considering that the diseases the mosquito carries - dengue and yellow fevers, which together affect up to 100 million people a year, mostly in...