Adoption as an offspring strategy to reduce ectoparasite exposure

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Bize, Pierre ^a   Roulin, Alexandre ^b   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Alloparental care; Apus melba; Coloniality; Cost of parasitism; Hippoboscidae

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; ALLOPARENTAL CARE; ECTOPARASITE;

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECTOPARASITE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; INSECT; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

APUS APUS; APUS MELBA; AVES; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; INSECTA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 0042531546     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0037     Document Type: Article

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