Detrimental Effects of Haemoproteus Infections on the Survival of Biting Midge Culicoides impunctatus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 194-196

  Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a   Iezhova, Tatjana A ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; PARASITISM; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; FLY; HAEMOPROTEUS; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARASITEMIA; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; COCCIDIA; CULICOIDES IMPUNCTATUS; DIPTERA; HAEMOPROTEUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 1442277238     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3206RN     Document Type: Article

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