Cattle and Amblyomma variegatum Odors Used in Host Habitat and Host Finding by the Tick Parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri
| dc.contributor.author | Hassanali, Ahmed | |
| dc.contributor.author | Demas, Fanuel A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mwangi, Esther N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kunjeku, Edna C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mabveni, Audrey R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-30T12:05:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-04-30T12:05:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000-01-03 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Chemical Ecology (impact factor: 2.66). 03/2000; 26(4):1079-1093. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/6720 | |
| dc.description | DOI:10.1023/A:1005497201074 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The response of mated naive Ixodiphagus hookeri females to cattle and Amblyomma variegatum nymphal odors was tested in a Y-tube olfactometer. I. hookeri females were attracted to cattle urine, dung, and odors from tick-free feeding sites of A. variegatum nymphs on cattle, e.g., dewlaps, front heels, and hind heels. Tick-free scrotal odors did not attract the parasitoids. Furthermore, odors from off-host unfed and fed A. variegatum nymphs did not attract the parasitoids, despite an increase in the number of the nymphs to amplify any odor signal. A blend of odors from feeding on-host nymphs and cattle scrota attracted the parasitoids. In T-tube bioassays, I. hookeri females were attracted to hexane washes and fecal extracts of A. variegatum nymphs. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Journal of Chemical Ecology | en_US |
| dc.title | Cattle and Amblyomma variegatum Odors Used in Host Habitat and Host Finding by the Tick Parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
