Physiological aspects of multiple blood feeding in the malaria vector Anopheles tessellatus

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1051-1059

  Ramasamy, M S ^a   Srikrishnaraj, K A ^a   Hadjirin, N ^a   Perera, S ^a   Ramasamy, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Anopheles tessellatus; Fecundity; Gonotrophic cycle; Larval rearing density; Multiple blood feeding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 0034106329     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00217-6     Document Type: Article

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