Atypical behavior of a black fly species connects cavity-nesting birds with generalist blood parasites in an arid area of Spain

BACKGROUND: The feeding behavior of bloodsucking insects determines the transmission, distribution, host spectrum and evolution of blood parasites in the wild. Conventional wisdom suggests that some vector groups (e.g. black flies, family Simuliidae) are consistently exophagous daytime biters. We ai...

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Autores principales: Chakarov, Nayden, Veiga, Jesús, Ruiz-Arrondo, Ignacio, Valera, Francisco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8173925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34082829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04798-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8173925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34082829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04798-z

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