A video clip of the biting midge Culicoides anophelis ingesting blood from an engorged Anopheles mosquito in Hainan, China

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Yajun ^a   Xu, Jiannong ^b   Yang, Zhenzhou ^c   Wang, Xiaohua ^d   Lin, Zhongling ^d   Zhao, Wei ^e   Wang, Yan ^a   Li, Xiangyu ^a   Shi, Hua ^c  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Haikou City   (China)

^e Hainan Center for Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

Anopheles mosquito; Biting midge; Culicoides anophelis; Video

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; AEDES; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHINA; CULEX; CULICOIDES ANOPHELIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INGESTION; NONHUMAN; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES VAGUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84887397267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-326     Document Type: Article

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