Effects of host sociality on ectoparasite population biology

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 939-947

  Whiteman, Noah Kerness ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECTOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE INTENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYCERA; ARTICLE; BIRD; BUTEO GALAPAGOENSIS; COLPOCEPHALUM TUBINATUM; COOPERATIVE MATING; DEGEERIELLA REGALIS; ECTOPARASITE; HOST; HOST DENSITY; HOST SOCIALITY; ISCHNOCERA; LIFE HISTORY; LOUSE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORDO; PARASITE TRANSMISSIBILITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMIC RANK; TAXONOMY; TERRITORIALITY; THEORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECUADOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAWK; PARASITOLOGY; PEDICULOSIS;

MENOPONIDAE; PHILOPTERIDAE; PHTHIRAPTERA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; ECUADOR; HAWKS; LICE; LICE INFESTATIONS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4544224156     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-310R     Document Type: Article

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