Off-host physiological ecology of ixodid ticks

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 659-681

  Needham, Glen R ^a   Teel, Pete D ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ixodidae; Tick survival; Water balance physiology; Water vapor sorption; Zoogeographic interpretations

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; EATING; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TICK;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; EATING; PERMEABILITY; TICKS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

TICK; WATER-BALANCE;

IXODIDAE;

EID: 0025982850     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.en.36.010191.003303     Document Type: Article

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