Establishment of the avian disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823 (Diptera: Culicidae) on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

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Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 844-847

  Whiteman, Noah Kerness ^a   Goodman, Simon J ^b   Sinclair, Bradley J ^c   Walsh, Tim ^d,e,g   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b   Kramer, Laura D ^f   Parker, Patricia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^d CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION   (Ecuador)

^e SAINT LOUIS ZOO   (United States)

^f WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISEASE; ISLAND; MOSQUITO;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 24944549398     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2005.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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