Environmental drivers of Culicoides phenology: How important is species-specific variation when determining disease policy?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Searle, Kate R ^a   Barber, James ^b   Stubbins, Francesca ^b   Labuschagne, Karien ^c   Carpenter, Simon ^b   Butler, Adam ^d   Denison, Eric ^b   Sers, Christopher ^b   Mellor, Philip S ^b   Wilson, Anthony ^b   Nelson, Noel ^b   Gubbins, Simon ^b   Purse, Bethan V ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; AVARITIA; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOST RANGE; LANDSCAPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; CERATOPOGONIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; INSECT CONTROL; RUMINANT; VETERINARY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; RUMINANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84911433250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111876     Document Type: Article

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