Being a parasitoid of parasites: Host finding in the tick wasp Ixodiphagus hookeri by odours from mammals

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-137

  Collatz, Jana ^a   Fuhrmann, Andrea ^a   Selzer, Philipp ^a   Oehme, Rainer M ^b   Hartelt, Kathrin ^b   Kimmig, Peter ^a   Meiners, Torsten ^c   MacKenstedt, Ute ^a   Steidle, Johannes L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acari; Encyrtidae; Hunterellus hookeri; Hymenoptera; Ixodes ricinus; Ixodidae; Parasitic wasp; Roe deer; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; OLFACTION; PARASITOID; TICK; WASP;

ACARI; BOS; CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; ENCYRTIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; IXODIPHAGUS HOOKERI; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 74349131443     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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