Learned host preference in a Chagas disease vector, Rhodnius prolixus

Acta Tropica

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-28

  Vinauger, Clément ^a   Pereira, Marcos H ^b   Lazzari, Claudio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Haematophagous; Host choice; Olfactory conditioning; Triatominae

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST PREFERENCE; INSECT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CHAGAS DISEASE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMINAE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE VECTORS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ODORS; QUAIL; RATS; RHODNIUS;

HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 84857121019     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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