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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2010 Sep 28;20(18):1672–1678. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.016

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Avoidance to airborne citronellal vapor. (A) Variation of DART assay (Figure S1B) used to assay repulsion of female Anopheles gambiae to citronellal and benzaldehyde (10% each). (B) Avoidance to 0.1 – 10% citronellal vapor. (C) Time-dependence for avoidance to 1% citronellal. (D) Requirement of antenna and Or83b-expressing ORNs for citronellal repulsion. The asterisks indicate significant differences from the wild-type control (ANOVA, p<0.05). (E) Survey of SSR responses of the chemosensory neurons in the 3rd antennal segment to 10% citronellal. (F) Cartoon indicating location of novel ab11 and ab12 sensilla (green box). (G and H) Representative SSR traces of spontaneous activity demonstrating presence of 3 ORNs (top) and unique odorant response profiles for ab11 (G) and ab12 (H) sensilla to 1% odorants (bottom). Mean ±SEMs are shown. The number (n) of experiments for the SSRs shown in Figures 1E, 1G and 1H are indicated in Table S1.