Host preferences of ornithophilic biting midges of the genus Culicoides in the Eastern Balkans

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 290-296

  Bobeva, A ^a   Zehtindjiev, P ^a   Ilieva, M ^a,b   Dimitrov, D ^a,c   Mathis, A ^d   Bensch, S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bloodmeal; Culicoides; Haemoproteus; Host preferences; Vector host associations

Indexed keywords

DNA;

COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; DNA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; HOST PREFERENCE; MAMMAL; PASSERINE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BULGARIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES ALAZANICUS; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES FESTIVIPENNIS; CULICOIDES GRISEIDORSUM; CULICOIDES PICTIPENNIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; FEEDING; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BIRD DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

BALKANS; BULGARIA;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES FESTIVIPENNIS; CULICOIDES GRISEIDORSUM; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; CULICOIDES PICTIPENNIS; CULICOIDES PUNCTATUS; DIPTERA; HAEMOPROTEUS; MAMMALIA; PARUS MAJOR; PICA PICA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BULGARIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HAEMOSPORIDA; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84937724438     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12108     Document Type: Article

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