Life-history strategies and population dynamics of abomasal nematodes in Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus)

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 297-311

  Irvine, R J ^a,e   Stien, A ^a   Halvorsen, O ^b   Langvatn, R ^c,d   Albon, S D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abomasum nematodes; Age intensity; Aggregation; Reindeer; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEER; EGG; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; MALE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; OSTERTAGIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUMMER; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; WINTER;

ABOMASUM; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FECES; FEMALE; MACROLIDES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REINDEER; SEASONS; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MARSHALLAGIA MARSHALLI; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA GRUEHNERI; RANGIFER TARANDUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 0034055469     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005430     Document Type: Article

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