Avian Plasmodium in Culex and Ochlerotatus Mosquitoes from Southern Spain: Effects of Season and Host-Feeding Source on Parasite Dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ferraguti, Martina ^a   Martínez de la Puente, Josué ^a   Muñoz, Joaquín ^a,c   Roiz, David ^a   Ruiz, Santiago ^b   Soriguer, Ramón ^a   Figuerola, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Mosquito Control Service   (Spain)

^c University of Oklahoma Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CYTOCHROME B GENE; FEMALE; GENOME SIZE; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRING; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; OCHLEROTATUS CASPIUS; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CULEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; OCHLEROTATUS; PLASMODIUM; SEASONS; SPAIN;

EID: 84879186997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066237     Document Type: Article

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