Relative importance of demographics, locale, and seasonality underlying louse and flea parasitism of raccoons (Procyon lotor)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-62

  Monello, Ryan J ^a   Gompper, Matthew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CARNIVORE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECTOPARASITE; FLEA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LOUSE; MAMMAL; SURVIVORSHIP;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLEA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; LOUSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM; RACCOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PEDICULOSIS; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ORCHOPEAS HOWARDI; PHTHIRAPTERA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TRICHODECTES OCTOMACULATUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LICE; LICE INFESTATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MISSOURI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; RACCOONS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 64549088898     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1643.1     Document Type: Article

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