Size versus health as a cue for host choice: A test of the tasty chick hypothesis

Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-68

  Valera, F ^a   Hoi, H ^b   Darolova A ^c   Kristofik, J ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Carnus hemapterus; Ectoparasites; Hatching asynchrony; Host preference; Immunocompetence; Merops apiaster; Tasty Chick Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; HATCHING; HEALTH; HOST; HOST SELECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DIPTERA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRDS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; CARNUS HEMAPTERUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MEROPS; MEROPS APIASTER;

EID: 3142585343     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004005232     Document Type: Article

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