Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don’t know precisely how the virus cycles through these pests and the other animals they bite.
Entomology professor Pete Piermarini and Yeaeun Park, co-author of the study and a graduate student at Ohio State, address this question and the “wasabi receptor” in mosquitoes that’s attached to it.
