Evidence for a negative fitness-density relationship between parent density and offspring quality for two Xenopsylla spp. parasitic on desert mammals

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 156-166

  Krasnov, B R ^a,b   Hovhanyan, A ^a,b   Khokhlova, I S ^a   Degen, A A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Ramon Science Centre   (Israel)

Author keywords

Density; Development; Fleas; Intraspecific competition; Survival

Indexed keywords

DESERT; ECTOPARASITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLEA; GERBIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLEAS; GERBILLINAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RODENTIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

DASYURUS; MAMMALIA; MERIONES CRASSUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA; XENOPSYLLA CONFORMIS; XENOPSYLLA RAMESIS;

EID: 44349126613     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00730.x     Document Type: Article

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