Measuring aggregation of parasites at different host population levels

Parasitology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 581-587

  Boulinier, T ^a,c   Ives, A R ^b   Danchin, E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Ectoparasite; Heterogeneity; Host parasite interactions; Ixodes uriae; Rissa tridactyla; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; IXODES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; AVES; IXODES; IXODES URIAE; RISSA TRIDACTYLA;

EID: 0030058217     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000066166     Document Type: Article

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