Long-Term Spatiotemporal Stability and Dynamic Changes in the Haemoparasite Community of Bank Voles (Myodes glareolus) in NE Poland

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 196-211

  Bajer, Anna ^a   Welc Faleciak, Renata ^a   Bednarska, Małgorzata ^a   Alsarraf, Mohammed ^a   Behnke Borowczyk, Jolanta ^b   Siński, Edward ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; HEPATOZOON ERHARDOVAE; MURIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EVOTOMYS;

ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; BLOOD; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; PARASITOLOGY; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84904541019     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-014-0390-9     Document Type: Article

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