Host reproductive phenology drives seasonal patterns of host use in mosquitoes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Burkett Cadena, Nathan D ^a   McClure, Christopher J W ^a   Ligon, Russell A ^a   Graham, Sean P ^a   Guyer, Craig ^a   Hill, Geoffrey E ^a   Ditchkoff, Stephen S ^a   Eubanks, Micky D ^b   Hassan, Hassan K ^c   Unnasch, Thomas R ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES STICTICUS; AEDES VEXANS; ARDEA HERODIAS; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COQUILLETTIDIA PERTURBANS; CULEX ERRATICUS; CULEX PECCATOR; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX TERRITANS; FROG; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SELECTION; MALE; MOSQUITO; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NYCTANASSA VIOLACEA; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION; WHITE TAILED DEER; ANIMAL; FROGS AND TOADS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANURA; ARDEA HERODIAS; ARDEIDAE; AVES; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; NYCTANASSA VIOLACEA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CULICIDAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARASITES; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952340185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017681     Document Type: Article

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