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[Mortality profile of female Rhodnius robustus (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)]
Luis Fernando Chaves1, Ezequiel Zamora, Elis Aldana
1Laboratorio de Entomología Herman Lent, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. luchav@ula.ve
Revista De Saude Publica
|July 10, 2004
Abstract:
Mortality profile of 48 adult females of Rhodnius robustus shows that data analyzed by weeks and days have a statistical significantly fit (p<0.0001), that allows to affirm that mortality of this species is Gompertzian.

