Host Associations of the Tick, Ixodes angustus (Acari: Ixodidae), on Alaskan Mammals

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 682-685

  Murrell, Brian P ^a   Durden, Lance A ^a   Cook, Joseph A ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Ixodes angustus; Leptinus occidentamericanus; Mammalian hosts

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CLETHRIONOMYS RUTILUS; COLEOPTERA; IXODES; IXODES ANGUSTUS; IXODIDAE; LEPTINIDAE; LEPTINUS; LEPTINUS OCCIDENTAMERICANUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS KEENI; RUTILUS; SCIURIDAE; SOREX; SORICIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 0242660965     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-40.5.682     Document Type: Article

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