Researchers already know that the smell of DEET causes fruit flies ... Montell says there isn't a very good molecular understanding of how insects avoid this common botanical repellent.

In a crowded marketplace of products advertised to repel mosquitoes, consumers are wise to trust spray-on repellents containing DEET or PMD ... manager at the Molecular Vector Physiology ...

Figure 1: DEET scrambles the Drosophila odour code ... 12-h-dark cycle at 25 °C. Details of molecular biology manipulations, all primers and fly strains are in Methods. Recordings of female ...

Biochemist Walter Leal has discovered which receptor on mosquito antennae detects DEET, making it an effective repellant ... said lead author Professor Walter Leal of the Department of Molecular and ...

DEET was more effective than Picaridin as a repellent Older ... a study by chemical ecologist and mosquito researcher Walter Leal, distinguished professor in molecular and cellular biology at the ...