Identity and diversity of blood meal hosts of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Culicoides Latreille) in Denmark

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lassen, Sandra B ^a   Nielsen, Søren Achim ^b   Kristensen, Michael ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood meal host; Bluetongue virus; COI barcoding; Culicoides; Mammalophilic insects; Ornithophilic insects; Schmallenberg virus

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; COW; CULICOIDES; DENMARK; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PIGEON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DENMARK; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MAMMALS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COLUMBA; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866065081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-143     Document Type: Article

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