Insect/mammal associations: Effects of cuterebrid bot fly parasites on their hosts

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2007, Pages 17-36

  Slansky, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Emasculation; Feeding compensation; Oestridae; Resource budget

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; LARVA; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; MAMMALS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REPRODUCTION;

CUTEREBRA EMASCULATOR; CUTEREBRINAE; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; OESTRIDAE;

EID: 33846357893     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151017     Document Type: Review

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