Host characteristics and environmental factors differentially drive the burden and pathogenicity of an ectoparasite: A multilevel causal analysis

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 657-667

  Cardon, Maxime ^a   Loot, Géraldine ^a   Grenouillet, Gaël ^a   Blanchet, Simon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b Moulis   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Fish; Heterozygosity fitness relationships; Host parasite interaction; Model selection; Multilevel models; Path analysis; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CYPRINID; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EQUATION; FITNESS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; SELECTION;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COPEPOD; CYPRINIFORMES; ECTOPARASITOSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; COLD TEMPERATURE; COPEPODA; CYPRINIDAE; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS;

LEUCISCUS LEUCISCUS;

EID: 79953331017     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01804.x     Document Type: Article

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