Effect of different assemblages of larval foods on Culex quinquefasciatus and Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae) growth and whole body stoichiometry

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 767-774

  Peck, George W ^a,b   Walton, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex mosquitoes; Ecological stoichiometry; Larval mosquito nutritional physiology

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH; LIFE HISTORY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; STOICHIOMETRY;

CULEX (GENUS); CULEX (SUBGENUS); CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX TARSALIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 23444453704     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-34.4.767     Document Type: Article

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