Experimental host range studies with Heleidomermis magnapapula (mermithidae), a parasite of Culicoides variipennis (Ceratopogonidae)

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 398-401

  Mullens, Bradley A ^a   Luhring, Katherine A ^a   Breidenbaugh, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; MERMITHOIDEA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; MERMITHOIDEA;

EID: 0031298050     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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