According to the “CNN” website, a recent study found that certain people are already more attractive to mosquitoes than others, and researchers from the American University of Rockefeller discovered the cause as some people’s skin being more sensitive to specific acids and minerals.
A group of 64 participants were instructed to wear nylon socks on their sleeves for three years by the research team, which was led by Leslie Foshal, a professor at the University of Rockefeller and the director of a neurological genetics and behaviour laboratory.
The study’s first author, Maria Elena de Opaldia, a post-doctoral colleague at the University of Rockefeller, constructed a “two options of two options” – a glass room made of acrylic in which researchers placed two socks before launching the Egyptian Zaeja mosquito, also known as the yellow fever mosquito, or AEDES AEGYPTI, in the space and observing any stockpile that attracted additional insects.
With the help of this test, researchers were able to divide study participants into “low attracts,” whose socks did not appear to be attractive to insects, and “mosquito magnets,” whose socks attracted a lot of mosquitoes.
Researchers looked at mosquitoes and discovered 50 molecules that were more prevalent in these participants than others.
“We had no idea what we were going to find, but there was one distinct difference: it was for a person who is said to attract mosquitoes because they had more carboxyl acids on their skin than other people do,” Not really attractive.
Carboxylellic acids are found in sebum, which is an oily material that creates a barrier and helps in keeping our skin moisture.
Fushal explained that carboxylic acids are large molecules that they said, “They are not that unpleasant smell in themselves, but the beneficial bacteria on the skin chew these acids that produce the distinctive smell of humans – which may be what attracts mosquitoes.
Foshal said that for the people who were observed over the course of the three-year period, the degree of human attraction stayed largely consistent over time.
And when it comes to the Egyptian opposite mosquitoes, the female mosquitoes prefer to use human blood to feed eggs, which gives it urgency because of its endeavor to find humans to prey, and the law uses a variety of mechanisms to determine and choose the people who discredit them.
Carboxyl acids are simply one factor in the decision-making process for pesky insects; human body heat and the carbon dioxide we exhale when we breathe also attract mosquitoes.
Why is mosquitoes to some people more attracted than others? Research reveals
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