Feeding behaviour of Culicoides spp. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) on cattle and sheep in northeast Germany

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ayllón, Tania ^a   Nijhof, Ard M ^a   Weiher, Wiebke ^a   Bauer, Burkhard ^a   Allène, Xavier ^b   Clausen, Peter Henning ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UMR ASTRE   (France)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Cattle; Culicoides species; Host preferences; Preferential feeding sites; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEAD; HOST; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; SHEEP;

BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES CHIOPTERUS; CULICOIDES DEWULFI; CULICOIDES GRISEIDORSUM; CULICOIDES LUPICARIS; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES PALLIDICORNIS; CULICOIDES PULICARIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; CULICOIDES SUBFAGINEUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; SHEEP;

EID: 84892467293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-34     Document Type: Article

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