Divergent host preferences of above- and below-ground Culex pipiens mosquitoes and their hybrid offspring

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 115-123

  Fritz, M L ^a,b   Walker, E D ^c   Miller, J R ^a   Severson, D W ^d   Dworkin, I ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Culex pipiens; Form molestus; Form pipiens; Host acceptance; Human; Landing assay

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST PREFERENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MOSQUITO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; VIRAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BIRD; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS MOLESTUS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; FEEDING; HOST SELECTION; HOST-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; ILLINOIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST RANGE; LARVA; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CHICAGO; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; ILLINOIS; LARVA; OVUM;

EID: 84927061054     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12096     Document Type: Article

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