Vertebrate host specificity of wild-caught blackflies revealed by mitochondrial DNA in blood

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Malmqvist, Björn ^a   Strasevicius, Darius ^a   Hellgren, Olof ^b   Adler, Peter H ^c   Bensch, Staffan ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood feeding; Claw morphology; Land water interactions; Parasite host webs

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BLOOD; FLY; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLY; HOST RANGE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DIPTERA; MAMMALIA; SIMULIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342645616     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0120     Document Type: Article

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