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A Predator from East Africa that Chooses Malaria Vectors as Preferred Prey
BACKGROUND: All vectors of human malaria, a disease responsible for more than one million deaths per year, are female mosquitoes from the genus Anopheles. Evarcha culicivora is an East African jumping spider (Salticidae) that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by selecting blood-carrying female mo...
Autores principales: | Nelson, Ximena J., Jackson, Robert R. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1762417/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17205136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000132 |
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