Experimental evidence for host preference in a tick parasitizing songbird nestlings

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1209-1216

  Heylen, Dieter J A ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BROOD SIZE; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HATCHING; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; NESTLING; PARASITISM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; TICK;

AVES; IXODES; IXODES ARBORICOLA; IXODIDA; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 79960645451     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19358.x     Document Type: Article

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