Reproductive Aspects of the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera:Culicidae) Infected with Wuchereria bancrofti (Spirurida: Onchocercidae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-222

  Lima, Catarina A ^a   Almeida, Walkiria R ^a   Hurd, Hilary ^b   Albuquerque, Cleide M R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood feeding; Body size; Culex quinquefasciatus; Fecundity; Mosquito; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; EGG PRODUCTION; FERTILITY; FILARIOIDEA; HOST; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; REPRODUCTION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; CULEX; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FILARIOIDEA; ONCHOCERCIDAE; SPIRURIDA; WUCHERERIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; OVIPOSITION; WING; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0037591071     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762003000200009     Document Type: Article

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