Variation in morphological characters of Culex tritaeniorhynchus (Diptera : Culicidae), a Japanese encephalitis vector at Mysore, India

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 206-213

  Fakoorziba, M R ^a   Vijayan, V A ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Culex tritaeniorhynchus complex; Japanese encephalitis; Morphological variances

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; GILL; HAIR; INDIA; LARVA; MATING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CULEX; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INDIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 14644419494     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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