Spatio-temporal occurrence of Culicoides biting midges in the climatic regions of Switzerland, along with large scale species identification by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kaufmann, Christian ^a   Steinmann, Irene C ^a   Hegglin, Daniel ^a   Schaffner, Francis ^a   Mathis, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biting midge; Climatic region; Culicoides; MALDI TOF MS; Monitoring; Obsoletus group; Pulicaris group; Species identification; Vectors

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLIMATE; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES BITING MIDGES; DATA BASE; LIVESTOCK; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSOLETUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PULICARIS; SUMMER; SWITZERLAND; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEASONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SWITZERLAND;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84868235204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-246     Document Type: Article

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