Social and sexual behaviours aid transmission of bacteria in birds

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-92

  Kulkarni, Subhash ^a   Heeb, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Copulation; Infection; Pathogen; Plumage; Preening; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BACTERIUM; BIRD; COPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION; INGESTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACILLACEAE INFECTIONS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLOACA; COPULATION; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845215643     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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