Host-parasite biology in the real world: The field voles of Kielder

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 997-1017

  Turner, A K ^a   Beldomenico, P M ^a,b   Bown, K ^a,c   Burthe, S J ^a,d   Jackson, J A ^a,e   Lambin, X ^f   Begon, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dynamics; field vole; host; infectious disease; Kielder; Microtus agrestis; parasite

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; CESTODE; COWPOX VIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLEA; FOREST; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES; HEMATOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LOUSE; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MITE; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAENIA; TAENIA TAENIAEFORMIS; TICK; TRICHURIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRASSLAND; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLE TUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; ECOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84901849505     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014000171     Document Type: Review

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