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A joint group of German and American scientists has opened recruitment genes of the person who is responsible for the “taste” for bloodsucking. By that’s why mosquitoes always know for sure which person is more preferred.
It is no coincidence in life, for example, spouses with surprise find that mosquitoes bite only a woman (or a man) at night, although the couple sleeps in the same bed. However, the researchers found not only this interesting feature of the “relationship” of a person with mosquitoes, but also that a similar “appeal” to insects inherited – from parents to children, that is, more than 60 percent depends on gene factors.
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According to RIA Novosti, such a study will allow scientists more differentiated approach to the development of repellents from mosquitoes and their bites.
On the other hand, such discoveries expand our understanding of the world around us, proving, for example, that insects are not primitive creatures, even mosquitoes, not to mention bees, ants that have a wonderful collective intelligence.
As people say, for example, living in houses with bugs, even these primitive bloodsucking sometimes just hit their intelligent behavior. So, home bugs for some reason arrange only periodic attacks on the owners, for example, once a month, the rest of the days you can sleep peacefully. But standing in the house spend the night to a guest how he is provided with a terrible night: bedbugs attack the new victim and work all night, as they say, in full.
By the way, in Soviet dormitories, students sometimes tried fight bed bugs by setting, say, an iron bed in the middle of the room with legs in jars of water. It would seem the way to bloodsucker victim was cut off. There it was, bed bugs chain went along the wall, then the ceiling to the place where the bed was, and then fell on the sleeper and began their feast to the greatest to the surprise of the person who woke up, turned on the light, understanding how bedbugs circled him around his finger, and in surprise scratched his “turnip” – oh yes insects, well, tricks …
And say after that insects have no intelligence, not to mention their other amazing abilities, say, those possessed by mosquitoes, easily determining which person the most “delicious” …
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