Blood meal analysis of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Central Tunisia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Slama, Darine ^a   Haouas, Najoua ^a   Mezhoud, Habib ^a   Babba, Hamouda ^a,b   Chaker, Emna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b Pediatric Surgery Department   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL NUCLEUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES CATANEII; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES JUMINERI; CULICOIDES KINGI; CULICOIDES LANGERONI; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES PAOLAE; CULICOIDES PSEUDOJUMINERI; CULICOIDES SUBMARITIMUS; CYTOCHROME B GENE; DIPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIVESTOCK; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREPRONOCICEPTIN GENE; REPTILE; TUNISIA; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES CATANEII; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES SUBMARITIMUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CYTOCHROMES B; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUNISIA;

EID: 84925738724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120528     Document Type: Article

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