Characteristics of resting and breeding habitats of adult sand flies in the Judean Desert

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Müller, Günter C ^a   Kravchenko, Vasiliy D ^b   Rybalov, Leonid ^c   Schlein, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Emergence traps; Israel; P. papatasi; P. sergenti; P. tobbi; Phlebotomus syriacus; Sand fly breeding and resting sites

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISRAEL; PHLEBOTOMUS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ISRAEL; PHLEBOTOMUS;

PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS SYRIACUS;

EID: 79952147093     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: 19487134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2011.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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