Nestling development and the timing of tick attachments

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 766-773

  Heylen, D J A ^a   White, J ^a   Elst, J ^a   Jacobs, I ^a   Van De Sande, C ^a   Matthysen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

development; host preference; Ixodes; phenology; songbird

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; INFESTATION; IXODES ARBORICOLA; LARVA; MALE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARUS MAJOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; TICK;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

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

EID: 84861037899     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011002277     Document Type: Article

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