Host-feeding patterns of potential mosquito vectors in connecticut, USA: Molecular analysis of bloodmeals from 23 species of Aedes, Anopheles, Culex, Coquillettidia, Psorophora, and Uranotaenia

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1143-1151

  Molaei, Goudarz ^a   Andreadis, Theodore G ^a   Armstrong, Philip M ^a   Diuk Wasser, Maria ^b  

^a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment station ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Blood feeding behavior; Cytochrome b; Mosquitoes; Vector

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CONNECTICUT; CULICIDAE; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AEDES CANTATOR; AEDES CINEREUS; AEDES COMMUNIS; AMPHIBIA; ANOPHELES BARBERI; ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CERVIDAE; COQUILLETTIDIA; COQUILLETTIDIA PERTURBANS; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MAMMALIA; OCHLEROTATUS CANADENSIS; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS; OCHLEROTATUS TRIVITTATUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; POTOSI VIRUS; PSOROPHORA; REPTILIA; SAPPHIRINA; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; URANOTAENIA SAPPHIRINA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 56849110159     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[1143:HPOPMV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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