Chemical ecology of triatomine bugs: Vectors of Chagas disease

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 351-357

  Cruz Lopez L ^a   Malo, E A ^a   Rojas, J C ^a   Morgan, E D ^b  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Americas; Chagas disease; Chemical ecology; Dipetalogaster; Exocrine glands; Insect behaviour; Panstrongylus; Rhodnius; Semiochemicals; Triatoma; Triatominae; Trypanosomiasis; Vectors; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; DISEASE VECTOR; SEMIOCHEMICAL;

DIPETALOGASTER; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; INSECTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; PANSTRONGYLUS; REDUVIIDAE; RHODNIUS; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRIATOMINAE;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 0035543747     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0269-283x.2001.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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