Effects of circadian rhythms and other bioassay factors on cat flea (pulicidae: Siphonaptera) susceptibility to insecticides

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-39

  Bossard, Robert L ^a,b   Broce, Alberto B ^a   Dryden, Michael W ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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