On-host ecology and off-host survival of the sheep scab mite Psoroptes ovis

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 273-283

  Meintjes, T ^a,b   Fourie, L J ^a   Horak, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dorper sheep; Merino sheep; Off host survival; On host ecology; Psoroptes ovis

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HATCHING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; LARVA; MALE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PSOROPTES OVIS; SHEEP; SOIL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPERATURE; WOOL;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; OVIS ARIES; PSOROPTES; PSOROPTES OVIS;

EID: 0036998621     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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