Local variation in helminth burdens of bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) from ecologically similar sites: Temporal stability and relationships with hormone concentrations and social behaviour

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 185-195

  Barnard, C J ^a   Kulis, K ^b   Behnke, J M ^a   Bajer, A ^b   Gromadzka Ostrowska, J ^c   Stachon, M ^c   Sinski, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPICULURIS TETRAPTERA; BREEDING; CESTODIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOREST; HELIGMOSOMOIDES GLAREOLI; HELIGMOSOMUM MIXTUM; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; LABORATORY; MALE; MASTOPHORUS MURIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; POLAND; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHACIA PETRUSEWICZI; TRICHURIS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RODENT DISEASES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES; MURIDAE; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

EID: 0041853573     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/JOH2003194     Document Type: Article

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