Speaker
Description
Anthropophilic mosquito species depend on plant-derived sugars for building energy reserves for flight and survival, as well as reproduction, and is thus an established fact. There are, however, still a large number of open questions to be addressed, such as the natural range of host plant species and how this is affected or affects tritrophic interactions with pathogens, such as the malaria parasite. An insight into the chemical basis of
how mosquitoes select and discriminate among potential host plants may be of general interest for those studying insect-plant interactions, and may have implications for the development of novel attractants used in attractive toxic sugar bait technology. In my presentation, I will provide an insight into what my lab has working on, in relation to these aspects.
