Odor-mediated behavior of Afrotropical malaria mosquitoes

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 44, Issue , 1999, Pages 131-157

  Takken, Willem ^a   Knols, Bart G J ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Host seeking; Mating; Oviposition; Semiochemicals; Sugar feeding

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGG LAYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; ODOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; ODORS; OVIPOSITION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULICIDAE;

EID: 0033015128     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.44.1.131     Document Type: Review

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