Response of Anopheles gambiae s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) to larval habitat age in western Kenya highlands

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Munga, Stephen ^a   Vulule, John ^a   Kweka, Eliningaya J ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b TROPICAL PESTICIDES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; WATER;

ADULT; AGE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; EGG; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HABITAT; INSECT LARVA; KENYA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PREDATOR; PUPATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVORSHIP; TIME; WING; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; MALARIA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; LARVA; MALARIA; MALE; OVIPOSITION; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872194387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-13     Document Type: Article

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