Blood-feeding success of the mosquito Aedes aegypti depends on the transmission route of its parasite Edhazardia aedis

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-316

  Koella, Jacob C ^a,b   Agnew, Philip ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; EDHAZARDIA AEDIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

BLOOD FEEDING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; MOSQUITO; TRADE-OFF; YELLOW FEVER MOSQUITO;

EID: 0030620796     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546298     Document Type: Article

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