Ectoparasites and age-dependent survival in a desert rodent

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-39

  Hawlena, Hadas ^a   Abramsky, Zvika ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Field manipulation; Host age; Infestation; Parasite distribution

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

DESERT; ECTOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PARASITE; RODENT;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLEA; GERBIL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLEAS; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTICIDES; MALE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS ANDERSONI; RODENTIA;

EID: 33646469413     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0345-4     Document Type: Article

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