Modelling Sand Fly Lutzomyia longipalpis Attraction to Host Odour: A Synthetic Sex-Aggregation Pheromone Dominates the Response

This repository contains datasets used to parametrised attraction profiles of Lu. longipalpis.  Each dataset is provided as a tabulated text file, with each row corresponding to the outcome of a single experiment.  Data were collated from the following sources:

Dataset A:  Bray, D.P.; Carter, V.; Alves, G.B.; Brazil, R.P.; Bandi, K.K.; Hamilton, J.G.C. Synthetic Sex Pheromone in a Long-Lasting Lure Attracts the Visceral Leishmaniasis Vector, Lutzomyia longipalpis, for up to 12 Weeks in Brazil. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 2014, 8, e2723, doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002723.

Dataset B: González, M.A.; Bell, M.; Souza, C.F.; Maciel-De-Freitas, R.; Brazil, R.P.; Courtenay, O.; Hamilton, J.G.C. Synthetic sex-aggregation pheromone of Lutzomyia longipalpis, the South American sand fly vector of Leishmania infantum, attracts males and females over long-distance. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 2020, 14, e0008798, doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008798.

Dataset C: Dilger, E. The Effects of Host-Vector Relationships and Density Dependence on the Epidemiology of Visceral Leishmaniasis. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013.

Dataset D:  Dye, C.; Davies, C.R.; Lainson, R. Communication among phlebotomine sandflies: A field study of domesticated Lutzomyia longipalpis populations in Amazonian Brazil. Anim. Behav. 1991, 42, 183–192, doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80549-4.