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Effects of host spectra on feeding behaviour and reproduction of soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Rachel Galun ,
S. Sternberg  and
Christine Mango
Rachel Galun
Affiliation:
Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.
S. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.
Christine Mango
Affiliation:
International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Abstract

Argas persicus (Oken) fed readily on avian hosts and consumed more blood and produced more eggs than on mammalian hosts. Ornithodoros tholozani (Lab. & Mégn.) fed equally well on chicken and various laboratory animals and converted the blood of all hosts into eggs at equal rates. O. moubata (Murr.) was intermediate, feeding more readily on chicken, rabbit and guineapig than on mouse, rat or hamster, and showing greater utilisation of blood of chicken and rabbit than of the other hosts. The relation of these phenomena to the natural host spectra of the 3 tick species is discussed.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , April 1978 , pp. 153 - 157
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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