Ectoparasite infestation and sex-biased local recruitment of hosts

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6739, 1999, Pages 63-65

  Heeb, Philipp ^a   Werner, Isabelle ^a   Mateman, A C ^b   Kölliker, Mathias ^a   Brinkhof, Martin W G ^a   Lessells, C M ^b   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEA; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CERATOPHYLLUS GALLINAE; GALLUS GALLUS; HEXAPODA; PARUS MAJOR; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0033168896     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21881     Document Type: Article

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