Ectoparasitic "jacks-of-all-trades": Relationship between abundance and host specificity in fleas (Siphonaptera) parasitic on small mammals

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 506-516

  Krasnov, Boris R ^a   Poulin, Robert ^b   Shenbrot, Georgy I ^a   Mouillot, David ^c   Khokhlova, Irina S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Abundance; Fleas; Host specificity; Mammals

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECTOPARASITE; FLEA; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; FLEA; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FLEAS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MAMMALS; POPULATION DENSITY; SIPHONAPTERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 6344226175     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423716     Document Type: Article

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