Ecological patterns of blood-feeding by kissing-bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 479-494

  Rabinovich, Jorge Eduardo ^a   dan Kitron, Uriel ^b,c   Obed, Yamila ^a   Yoshioka, Miho ^b   Gottdenker, Nicole ^d   Chaves, Luis Fernando ^b,e,f  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLÓGICOS Y DE VECTORES CEPAVE   (Argentina)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Universidad Nacional de Colombia   (United States)

^f FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Diet analysis; Foraging; Multivariate statistics; Niche breadth; Null models

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEMIPTERA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 79959511469     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000400016     Document Type: Article

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