Against all odds: Explaining high host specificity in dispersal-prone parasites

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 37, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 871-876

  Dick, Carl W ^a   Patterson, Bruce D ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat flies; Chiroptera; Host associations; Host specificity; Streblidae

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; FLY; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BAT; FLIGHT; FLY; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; STREBLIDAE;

EID: 34249948731     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.02.004     Document Type: Review

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