Analysis of a complex vertical copulatory-courtship display in the yellow fever vector Sabethes chloropterus

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 276-285

  Zsemlye, J L ^a   Hancock, R G ^b   Foster, W A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of the Cumberlands   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Insemination; Mating; Mosquito; Sabethes chloropterus; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; COURTSHIP; MOSQUITO; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; YELLOW FEVER;

CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; PHYTOPLASMA; SABETHES; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YELLOW FEVER;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 25444491778     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2005.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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