Behavioural responses to ectoparasites: Time-budget adjustments and what matters to Blue Tits Parus caeruleus infested by fleas

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Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 461-469

  Tripet, Frédéric ^a,b   Glaser, Markus ^a   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECTOPARASITE; FLEA; PASSERINE;

PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0036070236     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2002.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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