Impact of nutrition and exposure to the parasite Plagiorchis elegans (Trematoda: Plagiorchiidae) on the development of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): Analysis by time-dependent transition probabilities

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-64

  Nguyen, Duyen ^a   Dutilleul, Pierre ^a   Rau, Manfred E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Development; Food availability; Mortality; Plagiorchis elegans; Time dependent transition probabilities

Indexed keywords

ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; NUTRITION;

AEDES AEGYPTI; CULICIDAE; DIGENEA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PLAGIORCHIIDAE; PLAGIORCHIS ELEGANS; TREMATODA;

EID: 0036488335     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.1.54     Document Type: Article

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