Molting success of Ixodes scapularis varies among individual blood meal hosts and species

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 860-866

  Brunner, Jesse L ^a   Cheney, Laura ^b   Keesing, Felicia ^b   Killilea, Mary ^c   Logiudice, Kathleen ^d   Previtali, Andrea ^a   Ostfeld, Richard S ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

blood meal host; interspecific variation; intraspecific variation; Ixodes scapularis; molting success

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MAMMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLTING; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK INFESTATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BAYES THEOREM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MAMMALS; MOLTING; NEW YORK; NYMPH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

AVES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS; HYLOCICHLA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 79960492096     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/ME10256     Document Type: Article

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