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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"stylet neurons"”.
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The Taste of Blood
… the syringe-like blood-feeding appendage, the stylet, and discovered a population of sexually dimorphic chemosensory neurons that are the first neurons to contact blood as a mosquito bites her victim. Using pan-neuronal GCaMP calcium imaging, we found that stylet neurons robustly respond to …
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Dining in the Dark ATP Sensing in the Female Aedes Aegypti Mosquito
… the skin to feed on blood. Probing uses the stylet, a sharp appendage ensheathed in the mosquito labium that punctures the skin and is highly specialized for blood ingestion. Previous work from the lab with GCaMP calcium imaging of stylet neurons showed that approximately 50% of stylet …