Multi-Cue Integration: How Female Mosquitoes Locate a Human Host

To reproduce, the female yellow fever mosquito has to find a human host. There are many potential cues available to guide such navigation: exhaled carbon dioxide, a plethora of skin odors, the host’s visual and heat signatures and, close by, moisture. Recent work is shedding new light on how these are integrated by the mosquito in targeting a human host. To reproduce, the female yellow fever mosquito has to find a human host. There are many potential cues available to guide such navigation: exhaled carbon dioxide, a plethora of skin odors, the host’s visual and heat signatures and, close by, moisture. Recent work is shedding now light on how these are integrated by the mosquito in targeting a human host.