Peculiarities of behaviour of taiga (Ixodes persulcatus) and sheep (Ixodes ricinus) ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) determined by different methods

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-153

  Alekseev, Andrey N ^a   Jensen, Per M ^b   Dubinina, Helen V ^a   Smirnova, Lioubov A ^b   Makrouchina, Natalia A ^b   Zharkov, Sergey D ^b  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Exoskeleton anomalies; Locomotor activity; Questing; Tick

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033922692     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2000.029     Document Type: Article

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