Immune response to fleas in a wild desert rodent: Effect of parasite species, parasite burden, sex of host and host parasitological experience

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2725-2733

  Khokhlova, Irina S ^a   Spinu, Marina ^b   Krasnov, Boris R ^a   Degen, A Allan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cross immunity; Flea; Immune response; Maternal transfer; Meriones crassus; Rodent; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENVIRONMENT; FLEA; GERBIL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISRAEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RODENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CROSS REACTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FLEAS; GERBILLINAE; GLUCOSE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; ISRAEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RODENT DISEASES; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES; MERIONES CRASSUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA;

EID: 4344668601     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01090     Document Type: Article

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