Host responses to ectoparasites: Food compensation by parent blue tits

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 557-561

  Tripet, Frédéric ^a   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE TIT; ECTOPARASITE; FLEA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

CERATOPHYLLIDAE; CERATOPHYLLUS GALLINAE; PARUS CAERULEUS; SIPHONAPTERA;

EID: 0030617875     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545617     Document Type: Article

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