Gastrointestinal parasites of howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) inhabiting the fragmented landscape of the Santa Marta mountain range, Veracruz, Mexico

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 539-548

  Valdespino, Carolina ^a   Rico Hernández, Guillermo ^b   Mandujano, Salvador ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Conzooltores Ltda ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

Coccidia; Controrchis biliophilus; Food tree species; Forest fragment; Mexican mantled howler monkey; Prevalence; Total basal area; Trypanoxyuris minutus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASAL AREA; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GASTROENTERITIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; WET SEASON;

ALOUATTA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIA; DICROCOELIUM; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FACTUAL DATABASE; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DICROCOELIIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; EIMERIIDA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HELMINTHS; OXYURIDA; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA DE SANTA MARTA [VERACRUZ]; VERACRUZ;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA PALLIATA; ANIMALIA; COCCIDIA; DICROCOELIIDAE; DICROCOELIUM; EIMERIIDAE; OXYURIDAE;

EID: 77951687001     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20808     Document Type: Article

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