Vision guides the twilight search for oviposition sites of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus

• Si Yu Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Si Yu Zhao, Hong Kai Liu, Zhen Sheng Xie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Hong Kai Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Si Yu Zhao, Hong Kai Liu, Zhen Sheng Xie

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Zhen Sheng Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Si Yu Zhao, Hong Kai Liu, Zhen Sheng Xie

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Yi Ming Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Pei Lin Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Tong Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Wen Qiang Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jing Wu,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• JunYu Fu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Chun Mei Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Anthony A. James,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Xiao-Guang Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xgchen@smu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-691X

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