Helminth species diversity of mammals: Parasite species richness is a host species attribute

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1701-1705

  Bordes, F ^a   Morand, S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Helminths; Parasite species richness; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELMINTH; HOST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA; VERMES;

EID: 57149089451     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008005040     Document Type: Article

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