{"id":122779,"date":"2024-11-06T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T10:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122779"},"modified":"2024-11-06T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T10:19:49","slug":"scientists-make-shocking-discovery-about-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122779","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Make &#8216;Shocking&#8217; Discovery About Mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divStoryBodyAbove\">\n<p>                                    <span id=\"StoryTextTop\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Could eliminating mosquitoes&#8217; sense of hearing be the key to eliminating mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and Zika? Possibly. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c207gvrn65do\">BBC<\/a> reports researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara began by taking stock of the way mosquitoes, specifically<em> Aedes aegypti<\/em> mosquitoes, mate: in mid-air, for anywhere between a few seconds to just under a minute. The males track down a mate via the sound made by her wingbeats; a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-deaf-male-mosquitoes-dont.html\">press release<\/a> explains females beat their wings at around 500 Hz, and males who detect this fly to them at about 800 Hz.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"divStoryBodyBelow\">\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        As the release explains, &#8220;A mosquito&#8217;s physiology reveals just how important hearing is to these insects&#8221;\u2014males have more auditory neurons than any other insect. The scientists pinpointed a protein called trpVa that is required for their hearing and eliminated it. In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2404324121\">PNAS<\/a>, the researchers write that they shut the mutated males in a cage with females, and after three days, zero mating had occurred; wild males that were caged with females, by contrast, mated multiple times and fertilized nearly every female present. The release explains males continually look for new potential partners, but a female that has been fertilized typically won&#8217;t mate again. &#8220;If they can&#8217;t hear the female wingbeat, they&#8217;re not interested,&#8221; says study author Craig Montell.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        &#8220;I think the reason why our major finding is so shocking is because, in most organisms, mating behavior is dependent on a combination of several sensory cues,&#8221; said study author Emma Duge. &#8220;The fact that taking away a single sense can completely abolish mating is fascinating.&#8221;  (More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/tag\/2995\/1\/discoveries.html\">discoveries<\/a> stories.)&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var FBAPI = '119343999649';\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n        FB.init({\n            appId: FBAPI,\n            status: true,\n            cookie: true,\n            xfbml: true,\n            oauth: true,\n            authResponse: true,\n            version: 'v2.5'\n        });\n        FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function (response) {\n            \/\/AnalyticsCustomEvent('Facebook', 'Like', 'P');\n        });\n    };\n    \/\/ Load the SDK asynchronously\n    (function (d, s, id) {\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/358956\/scientists-call-their-mosquito-discovery-shocking.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Could eliminating mosquitoes&#8217; sense of hearing be the key to eliminating mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and Zika? 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