Nestedness of ectoparasite-vertebrate host networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Graham, Sean P ^a   Hassan, Hassan K ^b   Burkett Cadena, Nathan D ^a   Guyer, Craig ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; DILUTION; ECTOPARASITE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 70849115505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007873     Document Type: Article

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