Modelling trade-offs between mortality and fitness associated with persistent blood feeding by mosquitoes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 98-105

  Anderson, Robert A ^a   Roitberg, Bernard D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood feeding; Fecundity; Models; Mortality; Mosquitoes; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032967807     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.22055.x     Document Type: Article

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