Rancid rumors or Native wisdom: Evaluating the efficacy of animal fats as insect repellents attributed to historic-period Native Americans

• Delaram Esmaeili,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4923-4054

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• Keyla R. Salas,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

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• Hailey A. Luker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

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• Soumi Mitra,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Claudia J. Galvan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

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• F. Omar Holguin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

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• Sophie Whyms,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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• Immo A. Hansen ,

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

  * E-mail: immoh@nmsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-2606

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• August G. Costa

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2206-2937

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