Adaptive timing of detachment in a tick parasitizing hole-nesting birds

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 264-270

  White, J ^a   Heylen, D J A ^a   Matthysen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cavity nesting birds; detachment; dispersal; Ixodes arboricola; nidicolous tick; Parus major; transmission

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFESTATION; IXODES; IXODES ARBORICOLA; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE DETACHMENT; PARASITE DISPERSAL; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; TICK INFESTATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; IXODES ARBORICOLA; IXODIDA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84863405911     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001806     Document Type: Article

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