Ultimate mechanisms of age-biased flea parasitism

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 601-609

  Hawlena, Hadas ^a,b   Abramsky, Zvika ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ramon Science Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distribution among host individuals; Fitness reward; Host choice; Learning; Rodents

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FITNESS; FLEA; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST QUALITY; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLEA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RODENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLEAS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; REPRODUCTION; RODENTIA;

MERIONES CRASSUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA CONFORMIS;

EID: 36448979601     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0851-7     Document Type: Article

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