Ectoparasite ticks and chewing lice of red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa, in Spain

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-37

  Calvete, Carlos ^a   Estrada, R ^b   Lucientes, J ^b   Estrada, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alectoris rufa; Bird; Chewing lice; Ectoparasite; Ixodidae; Mallophaga; Spain; Tick

Indexed keywords

GAMEBIRD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LOUSE; NDVI; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; TEMPERATURE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; INFESTATION; MALE; MALLOPHAGA; PARASITOLOGY; PEDICULOSIS; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; TICK; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALE; MALLOPHAGA; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

SPAIN;

ACARI; ALECTORIS; ALECTORIS RUFA; ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBAE; COLUMBICOLA; COLUMBICOLA COLUMBAE; CUCLOTOGASTER; GALLIFORMES; GONIOCOTES; GONIODES; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA LUSITANICUM; IXODES; IXODES FRONTALIS; IXODIDAE; MALLOPHAGA; MENACANTHUS; MENOPONIDAE; PHILOPTERIDAE; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 0037355099     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2003.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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