Badgers and Badger Fleas: Strategies and Counter-Strategies

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 751-764

  Stewart, Paul D ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; FLEA; GROOMING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MUSTELID;

MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; PARACERIS MELIS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 0141727452     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00910.x     Document Type: Article

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