Energetic cost of bot fly parasitism in free-ranging eastern chipmunks

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-312

  Careau, Vincent ^a   Thomas, Donald W ^a   Humphries, Murray M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basal metabolic rate; Cuterebra; Metabolism; Parasites; Rodents

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; JUVENILE; METABOLISM; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FLY; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS;

CUTEREBRA; CUTEREBRINAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; OESTRIDAE; RODENTIA; TAMIAS STRIATUS;

EID: 74449084420     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1466-y     Document Type: Article

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