A predator from East Africa that chooses malaria vectors as preferred prey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Nelson, Ximena J ^a,c   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EVARCHA CULICIVORA; FEMALE; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; SPIDER; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; HEXAPODA; SALTICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 39649114889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000132     Document Type: Article

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