Ecological differences and coexistence in a guild of microparasites: Bartonella in wild rodents

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1841-1849

  Telfer, Sandra ^a   Clough, Helen E ^a   Birtles, Richard J ^a   Bennett, Malcolm ^a   Carslake, David ^a   Helyar, Sarah ^a   Begon, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apodemus; Bank vole; Clethrionomys; Competition; Parasite; Wood mouse

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GUILD; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; WILD POPULATION;

APODEMUS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA BIRTLESII; BARTONELLA DOSHIAE; BARTONELLA GRAHAMII; BARTONELLA TAYLORII; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BARTONELLA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MURINAE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BARTONELLA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MURINAE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 34548411866     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1004.1     Document Type: Article

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