Aromatic plants in blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus nests: No negative effect on blood-sucking Protocalliphora blow fly larvae

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-132

  Mennerat, Adèle ^a   Perret, Philippe ^a   Caro, Samuel P ^b   Heeb, Philipp ^c   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BLOOD; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ECTOPARASITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; MOSQUITO; PARASITE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLIPHORIDAE; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; PROTOCALLIPHORA;

EID: 40349114790     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2008.04400.x     Document Type: Article

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