Interspecific parasite exchange in a mixed colony of birds

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 245-250

  Valera, Francisco ^a,b   Casas Crivillé, Alejandro ^a,c   Hoi, Herbert ^a,c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c Inst Vergleichende Verhaltenforsch   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COLONY; HOST RANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; CARNUS HEMAPTERUS; COMPETITION; ECTOPARASITE; HATCHING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INFESTATION; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DIPTERA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALLOPHAGA; MITE INFESTATIONS; PREVALENCE; SONGBIRDS; SPAIN;

ACARI; APOIDEA; AVES; CARNIDAE; CARNUS HEMAPTERUS; DIPTERA; MEROPS APIASTER; NEMATODA; PASSERIDAE; PETRONIA PETRONIA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 0037396570     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0245:IPEIAM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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