Mammal and flea relationships in the Great Basin Desert: From H. J. Egoscue's collections

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 260-266

  Bossard, Robert L ^a  

^a WESTMINSTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEA; HABITAT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; PARASITE;

ARTICLE; CORRODOPSYLLA CURVATA; CRICETIDAE; DESERT; FLEA; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HARE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LAGURUS CURTATUS; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MEGABOTHRIS ABANTIS; MERINGIS HUBBARDI; NEOTOMA CINEREA; NEOTOMA LEPIDA; NONHUMAN; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; PEROMYSCUS; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREVALENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RABBIT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOREX VAGRANS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDII; SQUIRREL; STERNOPSYLLA DISTINCTA; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FLEAS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MAMMALS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CRICETINAE; LEMMISCUS CURTATUS; LEPUS; MAMMALIA; MEGABOTHRIS; MERINGIS HUBBARDI; NEOTOMA CINEREA; NEOTOMA LEPIDA; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SOREX VAGRANS; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDI; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 33646476040     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3545.1     Document Type: Article

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