Relationships between host body condition and immunocompetence, not host sex, best predict parasite burden in a bat-helminth system

Parasitology Research

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2155-2164

  Warburton, Elizabeth M ^a   Pearl, Christopher A ^a,b   Vonhof, Maarten J ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body condition; Eptesicus fuscus; Helminthiasis; Immunocompetence; Sex biased parasitism

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX FACTORS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84958777858     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-016-4957-x     Document Type: Article

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