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How do biting disease vectors behaviourally respond to host availability?

BACKGROUND: Ecological theory predicts a diverse range of functional responses of species to resource availability; but in the context of human blood consumption by disease vectors, a simplistic, linear response is ubiquitously assumed. A simple and flexible model formulation is presented that exten...

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Autor principal: Yakob, Laith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27562086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1762-4