Resting behaviour, ecology and genetics or malaria vectors in large scale agricultural areas of Western Kenya

Parassitologia

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 481-489

  Githeko, A K ^a   Service, M W ^b   Mbogo, C M ^a   Atieli, F K ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

An. Funestus; Anopheles gambiae complex; Chromosomes; Exophily; Irrigation; Kenya

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HEALTH; KENYA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; KENYA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030323172     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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