| Title: | "Host finding and feeding in Hydrotaea irritans (Diptera, Muscidae): the role of chemical senses" |
| Author(s): | Thomas G; Schomaker CH; Been TH; van den Berg MJ; Prijs HJ; |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0304-4017(85)90046-9 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0304-4017 (Print) 0304-4017 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Hydrotaea irritans is commonly considered to be the primary vector for the bacteria which cause summer mastitis in cattle. A behavioural physiology approach was used to investigate potential host odours (kairomones) that may be used by the fly in finding its host and to determine which substrates or sites on the host may be utilised in feeding. Attractant odours include CO2 and butyric, propionic and acetic acids: the latter three are also produced by the bacteria causing summer mastitis. When milk, slaver, nasal secretion, mastitis secretion and blood were offered to flies as feeding substrates only the last three produced significant increases in feeding duration in comparison to controls offered distilled water" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Bacterial Proteins Cattle/*parasitology Chemoreceptor Cells/*physiology Diptera/*physiology Exudates and Transudates Feeding Behavior/*physiology Female Mastitis, Bovine/metabolism/parasitology *Odorants;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineThomas, G Schomaker, C H Been, T H van den Berg, M J Prijs, H J eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Netherlands 1985/10/01 Vet Parasitol. 1985 Oct; 18(3):209-21. doi: 10.1016/0304-4017(85)90046-9" |
