Female host sex-biased parasitism with the rodent stomach nematode Mastophorus muris in wild bank voles (Myodes glareolus)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 523-533

  Grzybek, Maciej ^a   Bajer, Anna ^b   Behnke Borowczyk, Jolanta ^c   Al Sarraf, Mohammed ^b   Behnke, Jerzy M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank voles; Helminths; Lactation; Mastophorus muris; Pregnancy; Sex biased parasitism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOPARASITE; FEMALE; FOREST; INTERMEDIATE HOST; INVERTEBRATE; LACTATION; MALE; MASTOPHORUS MURIS; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; SPIRUROIDEA; STOMACH; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LACTATION; MALE; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; SPIRUROIDEA; STOMACH;

EID: 84925497022     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-4214-0     Document Type: Article

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