Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Malaria

Simon Hay and colleagues describe how the Malaria Atlas Project has collated anopheline occurrence data to map the geographic distributions of the dominant mosquito vectors of human malaria.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000209PMID 20161718PMCID 2817710
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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