Long-term spatiotemporal stability and dynamic changes in helminth infracommunities of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in NE Poland

Parasitology

Volumn 142, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1722-1743

  Grzybek, Maciej ^a,b   Bajer, Anna ^c   Bednarska, Małgorzata ^c   Al Sarraf, Mohammed ^c   Behnke Borowczyk, Jolanta ^d   Harris, Philip D ^e   Price, Stephen J ^a   Brown, Gabrielle S ^a   Osborne, Sarah Jane ^a   Siński, Edward ^c   Behnke, Jerzy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

bank voles; cestodes; Clethrionomys; helminth infracommunities; helminths; Myodes glareolus; nematodes; site specific parasite variation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; INTESTINE; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIODIVERSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; INTESTINES; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85027948094     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182015001225     Document Type: Article

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