Do secretions from the uropygial gland of birds attract biting midges and black flies?

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1715-1718

  Martínez De La Puente, Josué ^a   Rivero De Aguilar, Juan ^b   Del Cerro, Sara ^b   Argüello, Anastasio ^a   Merino, Santiago ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COLUMBA LIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; FEMALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION; SIMULIIDAE; UROPYGIAL GLAND;

ANIMALS; BODILY SECRETIONS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COLUMBIDAE; EXOCRINE GLANDS; GROOMING; PASSERIFORMES; SIMULIIDAE;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; HEXAPODA; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 83055181536     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2436-y     Document Type: Article

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