Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Pest Manag Sci. 2010 Sep;66(9):925-35. doi: 10.1002/ps.1974.
Research on mosquito chemical repellents continues to advance, along with knowledge of mosquito olfaction and behavior, mosquito-host interactions and chemical structure. New tools and technologies have revealed information about insect olfactory mechanisms and processing, providing a more complex approach for the interpretation of how chemical repellents influence host-seeking and feeding behavior. Even with these advances, there is still a large amount of information contained in the early works on insect repellents. Many of the standard test methods and chemicals that are still used for evaluating active repellents were developed in the 1940s. These studies contain valuable references to the activity of different structural classes of chemicals, and serve as a guide to optimization of select compounds for insect repellency effects.
对蚊虫化学驱避剂的研究仍在不断推进，同时对蚊虫嗅觉和行为、蚊虫-宿主相互作用以及化学结构的了解也在不断深入。新的工具和技术揭示了有关昆虫嗅觉机制和处理的信息，为解释驱避剂如何影响宿主寻找和取食行为提供了更复杂的方法。即使有了这些进展，昆虫驱避剂早期研究中仍包含大量信息。目前仍在使用的许多评估有效驱避剂的标准测试方法和化学物质都是在 20 世纪 40 年代开发的。这些研究为不同结构类别的化学品的活性提供了有价值的参考，并为选择具有昆虫驱避作用的化合物的优化提供了指导。
