Publications
| changes of the abundance of culicoides obsoletus s.s. and culicoides scoticus in southwest germany identified by a pcr-based differentiation. | the outbreak of bluetongue disease in central europe necessitates new approaches in the identification of vectors to follow-up changes of populations of species and not of complexes. since females of species of the complex of culicoides obsoletus are difficult to be identified according to morphological criteria, we applied a polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based strategy targeting the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit i to differentiate between the species culicoides obsoletus s.s. and c ... | 2009 | 19319570 |
| monitoring of ceratopogonidae in southwest germany. | within the entomological monitoring program of the german federal ministry of food, agriculture, and user protection (bmelv), at 12 cattle farms in rhineland-palatinate and two in saarland, ultraviolet lamp traps were used to monitor the distribution and seasonal appearance of potential vectors of the bluetongue virus, with special consideration of species of culicoides. using the traps during the first seven nights of each month from april 2007 to may 2008, 5,000-120,000 ceratopogonids were cau ... | 2009 | 19340458 |