An introduced generalist parasite, the sticktight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea), and its pathology in the threatened Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 941-948

  Boughton, R K ^a,b   Atwell, J W ^a,c   Schoech, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

BIRD; FLEA; GENERALIST; MORTALITY; PARASITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITIC DISEASE; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLEA; FLORIDA SCRUB JAY; HEMATOCRIT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFESTATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; STICKTIGHT FLEA; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FLORIDA; HEMATOCRIT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROFILARIA; PASSERIFORMES;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES; CORVIDAE; ECHIDNOPHAGA GALLINACEA; GALLUS GALLUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 33845245134     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-769R.1     Document Type: Article

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