Does investment into "expensive" tissue compromise anti-parasitic defence? Testes size, brain size and parasite diversity in rodent hosts

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-16

  Bordes, Frédéric ^a   Morand, Serge ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain; Expensive tissue hypothesis; Parasites; Rodents; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MITE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRADE-OFF;

ACARI; GAMASIDA; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); VERMES;

EID: 78650757394     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1743-9     Document Type: Article

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