Recurrent synapses between CO₂-sensitive olfactory sensory neurons enable robust CO₂ detection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

• Jialu Bao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jialu Bao, Wesley Alford

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Molecules, Cells, and Organisms Training Program, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Wesley Alford ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jialu Bao, Wesley Alford

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Avinash Khandelwal,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Laurel Walsh,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• George Lantz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Santiago Poncio,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Laia Serratosa Capdevila,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yervand Azatian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Brian DePasquale,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• David G. C. Hildebrand,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliations Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Vision Sciences, College of Optometry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Meg A. Younger ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: myounger@bu.edu (MAY); wei-chung_lee@hms.harvard.edu (W-CAL)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Wei-Chung Allen Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: myounger@bu.edu (MAY); wei-chung_lee@hms.harvard.edu (W-CAL)

  Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4618-295X

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