In Southeast Asia, mosquitoes in the Anopheles genus range from species that prefer humans to species that favor other primates, such as gibbons and orangutans. By sequencing DNA from 11 mosquito ...
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by transmitting malaria ...
The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...
(NEW YORK) -- As forests shrink and wildlife disappears, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to people for their blood meals, a shift that raises real concerns about the potential spread of diseases ...
Some mosquitoes have become increasingly reliant on human blood, new research shows – and it's probably our own fault. A sampling study of the bloodsuckers in Brazil has found that as biodiversity ...
Scientists have found that the malaria-transmitting 'Anopheles' species developed a taste for humans around 2 million years ago, a period overlapping with the arrival of 'Homo erectus', an extinct ...
Mosquitoes’ thirst for human blood is rising, reveals new research. Scientists found that some of the blood-sucking insects really are targeting humans more than other food sources. They say the ...
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