Host-seeking behaviors of mosquitoes experimentally infected with sympatric field isolates of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum: No evidence for host manipulation

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Vantaux, Amélie ^a,b   de Sales Hien, Domonbabele F ^a,b   Yameogo, Bienvenue ^a,b   Dabiré, Kounbobr R ^a   Thomas, Frédéric ^b   Cohuet, Anna ^b   Lefèvre, Thierry ^a,b  

^a Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Behavior; Experimental infection; Host seeking; Parasite manipulation; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971262485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00086     Document Type: Article

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