Chemical signals affecting mosquito behaviour

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 67-71

  Takken, Willem ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Host seeking; Mosquitoes; Oviposition; Semiochemicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032865146     PISSN: 07924259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07924259.1999.9652679     Document Type: Article

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