Why infest the loved ones - Inherent human behaviour indicates former mutualism with head lice

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 696-700

  Rózsa, Lajos ^a   Apari, Péter ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

body lice; facultative mutualism; head lice; human behaviour; louse borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEDICULUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; TRENCH FEVER; TYPHUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LICE INFESTATIONS; PEDICULUS; SCALP DERMATOSES; SYMBIOSIS;

PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 84861072067     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012000017     Document Type: Review

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