Attacks on the endangered Attwater's Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) by black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) infected with an avian blood parasite

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 309-312

  Adler, Peter H ^a   Roach, Donna ^b   Reeves, Will K ^c   Flanagan, Joseph P ^d   Morrow, Michael E ^b   Toepfer, John E ^e  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c USDA ARS   (United States)

^d Houston Zoo Inc   (United States)

^e Soc of Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus   (United States)

Author keywords

Attwater's Prairie Chicken; Black flies; Cnephia ornithophilia; Endangered species; Leucocytozoon

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COCCIDIA; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLY; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIMULIIDAE; TEXAS;

EID: 40949095708     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3376/1081-1710(2007)32[309:AOTEAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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