Rodent sociality and parasite diversity

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 692-694

  Bordes, Frédéric ^a   Blumstein, Daniel T ^b   Morand, Serge ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Ectoparasites; Parasite species richness; Rodents; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; IXODIDA; PHTHIRAPTERA; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); VERMES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENTIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38449088080     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0393     Document Type: Article

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