These studies outlined a dual role of UGTs in odorant metabolism and insecticide resistance hinting that they may play a similar role in Anopheles. Intriguingly in situ hybridisation has highlighted UGT expression at the site of olfactory neurons in B. dorsalis antennal sensilla50, as the nervous system is the target of multiple malaria control insecticides72. This evidence concerns the gene SLC35A2 and malaria.