Use of carbon-13 as a population marker for Anopheles arabiensis in a sterile insect technique (SIT) context

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hood Nowotny, Rebecca ^a   Mayr, Leo ^a   Knols, Bart G J ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; GLUCOSE; CARBON; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LARVA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INFERTILITY; LARVA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33646369924     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-6     Document Type: Article

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