Degree of associations among vectors of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and host bird species with respect to haemosporidian parasites in NE Bulgaria

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4505-4511

  Bobeva, Aneliya ^a   Ilieva, Mihaela ^a,b   Dimitrov, Dimitar ^a,c   Zehtindjiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Avian haemosporidians; Culicoides; Haemoproteus; Parasite life cycle; Vector parasite association; Vectors

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BULGARIA; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES FESTIVIPENNIS; CYTOCHROME B GENE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION; WING;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BULGARIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DNA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HAEMOSPORIDA; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84921936441     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-4140-1     Document Type: Article

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