Parasitism: Costs and Effects

Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-9

  Wobeser, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood feeding ectoparasites; Host parasite relationship; Life history theory; Parasitism obligatory trophic association; Presence of a parasite involving a cost to the host; T cell mediated immune response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889443590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813804620.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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