Culicoides species communities associated with wild ruminant ecosystems in Spain: Tracking the way to determine potential bridge vectors for arboviruses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Talavera, Sandra ^a   Muñoz Muñoz, Francesc ^b   Durán, Mauricio ^c   Verdún, Marta ^a   Soler Membrives, Anna ^b   Oleaga, Álvaro ^c,d   Arenas, Antonio ^e   Ruiz Fons, Francisco ^c   Estrada, Rosa ^f   Pagès, Nitu ^a,g  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^d SERPA Sociedad de Servicios del Principado de Asturias SA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^g UMR ASTRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARBOVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INSECT VECTOR; RUMINANT; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUSES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; INSECT VECTORS; RUMINANTS; SPAIN;

EID: 84949883647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141667     Document Type: Article

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