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Built in sound amplifier helps male mosquitoes find females
3 October 2018
New study led by the Ear Institute's Joerg Albert
The ears of male mosquitoes amplify the sound of an approaching female using a self-generated phantom tone that mimics the female鈥檚 wingbeats, which increases the ear鈥檚 acoustic input by a factor of up to 45,000, finds a new MyAV范-led study.
The team responsible for the study, led by Joerg Albert听have been听studying disease-carrying mosquitoes, and hope their findings, published in听Nature Communications, could help design acoustic lures to control the spread of deadly diseases.
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- 罢辞辫:听Aedes aegypti听(Yellow fever mosquito), with male on left with bushier antennae. (Credit: E. A. Goeldi (1905) Os Mosquitos no Par谩, Source:听)
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