Stability of within-host-parasite communities in a wild mammal system

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1762, 2013, Pages

  Knowles, Sarah C L ^a,b   Fenton, Andy ^c   Petchey, Owen L ^d   Jones, Trevor R ^c   Barber, Rebecca ^c   Pedersen, Amy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Co infection; Community ecology; Heligmosomoides polygyrus; Helminth; Interaction

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MONITORING; PROTOZOAN; RODENT; STABILIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN;

ANIMAL; BARTONELLA; BIOTA; DRUG EFFECTS; EIMERIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MURINE; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRYPANOSOMA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BARTONELLA; BIOTA; EIMERIA; ENGLAND; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IVERMECTIN; MURINAE; NEMATODA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84891510267     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0598     Document Type: Article

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