Ectoparasite and hemoparasite infection in a diverse temperate lizard assemblage at Macraes Flat, south Island, New Zealand

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1274-1278

  Reardon, James T ^a,b   Norbury, Grant ^a  

^a Wildlife Ecology and Management Team   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; HOST RANGE; LIZARD;

ARTICLE; ECTOPARASITE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HEMOPARASITE INFECTION; HOPLODACTYLUS MACULATUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LIZARD; MITE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSOMA GRANDE; OLIGOSOMA MACCANNI; OLIGOSOMA NIGRIPLANTARE POLYCHROMA; OLIGOSOMA OTAGENSE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MACRAES FLAT; NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

HOPLODACTYLUS MACULATUS; LEEUWENHOEKIIDAE; MACRONYSSIDAE; NEOTROMBICULA NAULTINI; ODONTACARUS LYGOSOMAE; OLIGOSOMA MACCANNI; OLIGOSOMA NIGRIPLANTARE; OLIGOSOMA OTAGENSE; OPHIONYSSUS SCINCORUM; TROMBICULIDAE;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; EUCOCCIDIIDA; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; NEW ZEALAND; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 14244267949     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3326     Document Type: Article

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