Geographic variation in rodent-flea relationships in the presence of black-tailed prairie dog colonies

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 178-190

  Thiagarajan, Bala ^a   Cully Jr , Jack F ^b   Loughin, Thomas M ^c   Montenieri, John A ^d   Gage, Kenneth L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fleas; Generalized linear mixed models; Infestation; Prairie dogs; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FLEA; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FLEAS; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MURIDAE; SCIURIDAE;

AETHECA WAGNERI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; HYSTRICHOPSYLLIDAE; NEOTOMA; ONYCHOMYS LEUCOGASTER; PEROMYSCOPSYLLA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); THRASSIS;

EID: 54749136194     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3376/1081-1710(2008)33[178:GVIRRI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Agresti, A. 1996. An Introduction To Categorical Data Analysis. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
2. Alexander, R.D. 1974. The evolution of social behavior. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 5: 326-383.
3. Anderson, S.H. and E.S. Williams. 1997. Plague in a complex of white-tailed prairie dogs and associated small mammals in Wyoming. J. Wildl. Dis. 33: 720-732.
4. Barnes, A.M. 1993. A review of plague and its relevance to prairie dog populations and the black footed ferret. In: J.L. Oldemeyer, D.E. Biggins, and B.J. Miller (eds.). Proceedings of the symposium on the management of prairie dog complexes for the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret. pp. 28-37. U.S. Dept. Interior Biological Report 13. 96 pp.
5. Biggins, D.E. and M.Y. Kosoy. 2001. Influences of introduced plague on North American mammals: implications from ecology of plague in Asia. J. Mammal. 82: 906-916.
6. Caro, A., C. Combes, and L. Euzet. 1997. What makes a fish a suitable host for Monogenea in the Mediterranean? J. Helminthol. 71: 203-210.
7. Collinge, S.K., C. Ray, and J.F. Cully Jr. 2008. Effects of disease on keystone species, dominant species, and their communities. In: R.S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V.T. Eviner (eds). Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 504 pp.
8. Cully, J.F., A.M. Barnes, T.J. Quan, and G. Maupin. 1997. Dynamics of plague in a Gunnison's prairie dog colony complex from New Mexico. J. Wildl. Dis. 33: 706-719.
9. Cully, J.F. and E.S. Williams. 2001. Interspecific comparisons of sylvatic plague in prairie dogs. J. Mammal. 82: 894-905. Cumming, G.S. 2004. On the relevance of abundance and spatial pattern for interpretations of host-parasite data. Bull. Entomol. Res. 94: 401-409.
10. Davis, R.M., R.T. Smith, M.B. Madon, and E. Sitko-Cleugh. 2002. Flea, rodent, and plague ecology at Chuchupate Campground,Ventura County, California. J. Vector Ecol. 27: 107-127.
11. Furman, D.P. and E.P. Catts. 1892. Manual of Medical Entomology. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, NY.
12. Gage, K.L. 1999. Plague surveillance: Plague manual - epidemiology, distribution, surveillance and control. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. pp. 135-165.
13. Gage, K.L. and M.Y. Kosoy. 2005. Natural history of the plague: perspectives from more than a century of research. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 50: 505-528.
14. Holdenried, R., F.C. Evans, and D.S. Longanecker. 1951. Host-parasite-disease relationships in a mammalian community in the central coast range of California. Ecol. Monogr. 21: 1-18.
15. Holdenried, R. and H.B. Morlan. 1955. Plague-infected fleas from northern New Mexico wild rodents: J. Infect. Dis. 96: 133-137.
16. Holdenried, R. and S.F. Quan. 1956. Susceptibility of New Mexico rodents to experimental plague. Publ. Hlth. Rep. 71: 979-984.
17. Hoogland, J.L. and P.W. Sherman. 1976. Advantages and disadvantages of Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) coloniality. Ecol. Monogr. 46: 33-58.
18. Hubbard, C.A. 1947. The Fleas of Western North America. Iowa State College Press, Ames, IA.
19. Kotliar, N.B. 2000. Application of the new keystone-species concept to prairie dogs: how well does it work? Conserv. Biol. 14: 1715-1721.
20. Krasnov, B.R., G.I. Shenbrot, I.S. Khokhlova, and A.A. Degen. 2004. Ectoparasite species richness and characteristics of host body, host geography and host "milieu". J. Anim. Ecol. 73: 1121-1128.
21. Krasnov, B.R., G.I. Shenbrot, S.G. Medvedev, V.S. Vatschenok, and I.S. Khokhlova. 1997. Host-habitat relation as an important determinant of spatial distribution of flea assemblages (Siphonaptera) on rodents in the Negev Desert. Parasitology 114: 159-173.
22. Lang, J.D. 1996. Factors affecting the seasonal abundance of ground squirrel and wood rat fleas (Siphonaptera) in San Diego County, California. J. Med. Entomol. 33: 791-804.
23. Lewis, R.E. 1990. The Ceratophyllidae: Currently Accepted Valid Taxa. Koenigstein & Koeltz, New York.
24. Lewis, R.E. 1993. Notes on the geographical distribution and host preferences in the order Siphonaptera. Part 8. New taxa described between 1984 and 1990, with a current classification of the order. J. Med. Entomol. 30: 239-256.
25. Lewis, R.E. 2000. A taxonomic review of the North American genus Orchopeas Jordan, 1933 (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae: Ceratophyllinae). J. Vector Ecol. 25: 164-189.
26. Lewis, R.E. 2002. A review of the North American species of Oropsylla Wagner and Ioff, 1926 (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae: Ceratophyllinae). J. Vector Ecol. 27: 184-206.
27. Marshall, A.G. 1981. The Ecology of Ectoparasitic Insects. Academic Press, London.
28. Miller, S.D. and J.F. Cully, Jr. 2001. Conservation of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). J. Mammal. 82: 889-893.
29. Murray, K.F. and A.M. Barnes. 1969. Distribution and habitat of the woodrat Neotoma fuscipes in northeastern California. J. Mammal. 50: 43-48.
30. Rozsa L., J. Reiczigel, and G. Majoros. 2000. Quantifying parasites in samples of hosts. J. Parasitol. 86: 228-232.
31. Stark, H.E. 1958. The Siphonaptera of Utah. Their Taxonomy, Distribution, Host Relations and Medical Importance. DHEW PHS CDC, Atlanta. 225 pp.
32. Stark, H.E. 1970. A revision of the flea genus Thrassis Jordan, 1933 (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae), with observations on the ecology and relationship to plague. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 53: 1-184.
33. Thomas, R.E. 1988. A review of flea collection records from Onychomys leucogaster with observations on the role of grasshopper mice in the epizoology of wild rodent plague. Great Basin Naturalist 48: 83-95.
34. Thomas, R.E. 1996. Fleas and the agents they transmit. In: B.J. Beaty, and W.C. Marquardt (eds.). The Biology of Disease Vectors. pp. 146-159. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO.
35. Traub, R. and H. Starcke. 1980. Fleas. In: R. Traub and H. Starck, (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Fleas, Ashton Wold, England, June, 1977. A.A. Balkema Publ., Rotterdam.
36. Whitaker Jr., J.O. 1968. Parasites. In: J.A. King (ed.). Biology of Peromyscus (Rodentia) Special Publication, American Society of Mammalogists. 2: 254-311.