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Re: Mosquitoes are tuned to seek out temperatures that match warm-blooded hosts

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mosquitoes are tuned to seek out temperatures that match warm-blooded hosts
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-mosquitoes-tuned-temperatures-warm-blooded-hosts.html
> 
> 
>> Many animals gravitate towards heat, most often to regulate their own
>> body temperatures. In rare cases, certain species?ticks, bedbugs, and
>> some species of mosquitoes?seek out heat for food. For female
>> mosquitoes, finding heat is essential for survival, as they need to
>> feast on warm-blooded prey to produce eggs. At the same time,
>> mosquitoes have to know when something is too hot, so they won't get
>> scorched on an over-heated blacktop, for instance.
>>
>> Researchers at Rockefeller University have demonstrated that
>> mosquitoes are exquisitely tuned to find heat sources that match the
>> temperature of warm-blooded hosts, including humans. What's more,
>> they uncovered part of the molecular mechanism the insects use to
>> fine-tune their behavior; when a specific gene was blocked,
>> mosquitoes lost the ability to distinguish between different
>> temperatures.
>>
>> "This paper is the beginning of the unraveling of the genes and
>> behaviors underlying mosquitoes' heat-seeking behavior," says Roman
>> Corfas, a graduate fellow in the lab of lead author Leslie Vosshall,
>> Robin Chemers Neustein Professor at Rockefeller University.
>> Hopefully, one day researchers can use this information to help
>> control mosquito populations that transmit deadly diseases such as
>> yellow fever, he adds. "Understanding this process and the molecular
>> mechanisms behind it will provide strategies for designing better
>> repellants, traps, and other ways to control mosquitoes."
 
Most people have known this for years.

Who is the idiot that wrote this crap? 

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Jim Pennino

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Mosquitoes are tuned to seek out temperatures that match warm-blooded hosts Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 09:29 -0600
  Re: Mosquitoes are tuned to seek out temperatures that match warm-blooded hosts jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-15 20:11 +0000

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