Feeding performance of fleas on different host species: Is phylogenetic distance between hosts important?

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-68

  Khokhlova, Irina S ^a   Fielden, Laura J ^b   Degen, A Allan ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auxiliary host; bloodmeal size; fleas; host specificity; phylogenetic distance; rodents

Indexed keywords

ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; FLEA; GENDER; GERBIL; HOST; HOST RESISTANCE; MALE; MERIONES CRASSUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAPULEX CHEPHRENIS; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPSYLLA RAMESIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; MICE; SIPHONAPTERA;

ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; MERIONES CRASSUS; PARAPULEX CHEPHRENIS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA RAMESIS;

EID: 84855431722     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001703     Document Type: Article

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