Bloodmeal analysis reveals avian plasmodium infections and broad host preferences of culicoides (diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vectors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Santiago Alarcon, Diego ^a,c   Havelka, Peter ^b   Schaefer, Hinrich Martin ^c   Segelbacher, Gernot ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULLICOIDES; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST RANGE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMANY; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PARASITES; PLASMODIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857382190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031098     Document Type: Article

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