Thermal ecophysiology of seven carrion-feeding blowflies in Southern Africa

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-19

  Richards, C S ^a   Price, B W ^a   Villet, M H ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Calliphora; Calliphoridae; Chrysomya; Diptera; Geographic distribution; Interspecific competition; Lucilia; Phylogeny; Temperature thresholds; Thermo physiology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONSPECIFIC; FLY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALLIPHORA; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHRYSOMYA; CHRYSOMYA ALBICEPS; CHRYSOMYA CHLOROPYGA; CHRYSOMYA MARGINALIS; CHRYSOMYA MEGACEPHALA; CHRYSOMYA PUTORIA; DIPTERA; LUCILIA (BLOWFLY); LUCILIA SERICATA; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 61849116651     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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