The role of body size in host specificity: Reciprocal transfer experiments with feather lice

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2158-2167

  Bush, Sarah E ^a,b   Clayton, Dale H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Coevolution; Columbiformes; Parasite; Specialization

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; COEVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOUSE; NATIVE SPECIES; PARASITE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FEATHER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALLOPHAGA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; COLUMBIDAE; FEATHERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALLOPHAGA;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; COLUMBIFORMES; COLUMBINA PASSERINA; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 33751331906     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-226.1     Document Type: Article

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