Vector-borne parasites decrease host mobility: A field test of freeze or flee behaviour of willow ptarmigan

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 735-740

  Holmstad, Per R ^a   Jensen, Knut Helge ^a   Skorping, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Eimeria; Flee; Freeze; Haematozoa; Leucocytozoon; Parasites; Ptarmigan

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENDOPARASITE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FREEZING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MOBILITY; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMERIA; FEMALE; HAEMOPROTEUSE MANSONI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOLEPIS; HYMENOLEPIS MICROPS; LEUCOCYTOZOON LOVATI; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARIONELLA UROGALLI; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA AVIUM;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DISEASE VECTORS; EIMERIA; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EIMERIA; HAEMOPROTEUS; HYMENOLEPIS MICROPS; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; LEUCOCYTOZOON LOVATI; PARIONELLA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS; TRYPANOSOMA AVIUM;

EID: 33744984142     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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