Avian host-selection by Culex pipiens in experimental trials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Simpson, Jennifer E ^a   Folsom O'Keefe, Corrine M ^a   Childs, James E ^a   Simons, Leah E ^b   Andreadis, Theodore G ^c   Diuk Wasser, Maria A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AMERICAN ROBIN; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; HUMIDITY; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; SEX DETERMINATION; SPARROW; STARLING; STERNUS VULGARIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WIND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CULEX; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; METABOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; STURNUS VULGARIS; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRDS; SPARROWS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 70849091206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007861     Document Type: Article

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