Incorporating parasite systematics in comparative analyses of variation in spleen mass and testes sizes of rodents

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1804-1814

  Ponlet, Nicolas ^a   Chaisiri, Kitipong ^b   Claude, Julien ^a   Morand, Serge ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

comparative analysis; gastrointestinal helminths; parasite species richness; Rodents; Southeast Asia; spleen mass; taxonomic index; taxonomic weight; testes size

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELMINTH; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPLEEN SIZE; TESTIS SIZE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE INFECTION; ORGAN SIZE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; TESTIS;

RODENTIA; VERMES;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TESTIS;

EID: 84856259343     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201100028X     Document Type: Article

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