The effect of spatial heterogenity on the aggregation of ticks on white-footed mice

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 915-925

  Devevey, G ^a   Brisson, D ^a  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

burden; host seeking ticks; index of dispersion; Ixodes scapularis; Pennsylvania; Peromyscus leucopus; repeatability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PEROMYSCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; TIME;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; LARVA; NYMPH; PENNSYLVANIA; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT DISEASES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 84861853436     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201200008X     Document Type: Article

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