Blood meal identification from mosquitoes collected at a commercial alligator farm

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 557-560

  Rodrigues, Sandra C G ^a   Maruniak, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligator; Blood meal identification; Culicidae; Mosquito feeding; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CULEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CULEX; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CULEX ERRATICUS; CULICIDAE; MAMMALIA; MANSONIA DYARI; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33750391888     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/8756-971X(2006)22[557:BMIFMC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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