Energetic costs of parasitism in the Cape ground squirrel Xerus inauris

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1622, 2007, Pages 2169-2177

  Scantlebury, M ^a,d   Waterman, J M ^b   Hillegass, M ^b   Speakman, J R ^c   Bennett, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doubly labelled water; Energy; Ground squirrel; Life history; Parasite; Resting metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

FIPRONIL; FRONTLINE; IVERMECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENERGETICS; ENERGY BUDGET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITISM; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOCEPHALIDES CONNATUS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOUBLY LABELED WATER TECHNIQUE; ECHIDNOPHAGA BRADYTA; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLEA; FOOD; GROOMING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LOUSE; METABOLIC CAPACITY; NEOHAEMATOPINUS FAUREI; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIROMETRY; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS THEILERI; SQUIRREL; SYNOSTERNUS CAFFER; XEROXYURIS PARALLELA; XERUS INAURIS;

ANIMALIA; SPERMOPHILUS; XERUS INAURIS;

EID: 34548020011     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0690     Document Type: Article

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