No accounting for taste: Host preference in malaria vectors

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 249-251

  Besansky, Nora J ^a   Hill, Catherine A ^b   Costantini, Carlo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST SELECTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; ODORS;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 2442428446     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.03.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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