High host specificity of obligate ectoparasites

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 446-450

  Dick, Carl W ^a,b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat flies; Bats; Chiroptera; Ectoparasites; Host specificity; Neotropics; Sampling contamination; Streblidae

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECTOPARASITE; FLY; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; SAMPLING;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; STREBLIDAE;

EID: 34848822288     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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