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List of works by Irina S Khokhlova

A trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring in haematophagous ectoparasites: the effect of the level of specialization

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF FLEAS (SIPHONAPTERA) ON WILD RODENTS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF ISRAEL ⬇️

scientific article

Age at weaning, immunocompetence and ectoparasite performance in a precocial desert rodent

scientific article

Aggregation and species coexistence in fleas parasitic on small mammals

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Assembly rules of ectoparasite communities across scales: combining patterns of abiotic factors, host composition, geographic space, phylogeny and traits

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BODY MASS AND ENVIRONMENT: A STUDY IN NEGEV RODENTS ⬇️

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Bartonella Genotypes in Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) Collected from Rodents in the Negev Desert, Israel ⬇️

scientific article published on August 27, 2010

Bartonella infection in rodents and their flea ectoparasites: an overview

scientific article

Beta-diversity of ectoparasites at two spatial scales: nested hierarchy, geography and habitat type.

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Beta-specificity: the turnover of host species in space and another way to measure host specificity

scientific article published on 8 July 2010

Between-host phylogenetic distance and feeding efficiency in hematophagous ectoparasites: rodent fleas and a bat host

scientific article published on 13 February 2007

Biogeography of parasite abundance: latitudinal gradient and distance decay of similarity in the abundance of fleas and mites, parasitic on small mammals in the Palearctic, at three spatial scales

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Body size and ecological traits in fleas parasitic on small mammals in the Palearctic: larger species attain higher abundance

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

Can we predict the success of a parasite to colonise an invasive host?

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Compositional and phylogenetic dissimilarity of host communities drives dissimilarity of ectoparasite assemblages: geographical variation and scale-dependence

scientific article

Density-dependent host selection in ectoparasites: an application of isodar theory to fleas parasitizing rodents

scientific article published on 19 December 2002

Desert gerbils affect bacterial composition of soil

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Digesting blood of an auxiliary host in fleas: effect of phylogenetic distance from a principal host ⬇️

scientific article published on April 15, 2012

Do fleas affect energy expenditure of their free-living hosts?

scientific article

Do the pattern and strength of species associations in ectoparasite communities conform to biogeographic rules?

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Does acquired resistance of rodent hosts affect metabolic rate of fleas?

scientific article published on July 2009

Drivers of compositional turnover are related to species' commonness in flea assemblages from four biogeographic realms: zeta diversity and multi-site generalised dissimilarity modelling

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

ENERGY REQUIREMENTS DURING REPRODUCTION IN FEMALE COMMON SPINY MICE (ACOMYS CAHIRINUS)

scientific article published in 2002

Ecological characteristics of flea species relate to their suitability as plague vectors

scientific article published on 31 May 2006

Ectoparasite performance when feeding on reproducing mammalian females: an unexpected decrease when on pregnant hosts

scientific article

Ectoparasitic "jacks-of-all-trades": relationship between abundance and host specificity in fleas (Siphonaptera) parasitic on small mammals

scientific article published on September 2004

Ectoparasitism and stress hormones: strategy of host exploitation, common host-parasite history and energetics matter.

scientific article

Effect of host gender on blood digestion in fleas: mediating role of environment

scientific article published on November 2009

Effects of Bartonella spp. on flea feeding and reproductive performance.

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Effects of food abundance, age, and flea infestation on the body condition and immunological variables of a rodent host, and their consequences for flea survival

scientific article published on 12 March 2008

Effects of host diet and thermal state on feeding performance of the flea Xenopsylla ramesis ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

Effects of maternal and grandmaternal flea infestation on offspring quality and quantity in a desert rodent: evidence for parasite-mediated transgenerational phenotypic plasticity

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Effects of parasite pressure on parasite mortality and reproductive output in a rodent-flea system: inferring host defense trade-offs

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

Effects of parasitism on host reproductive investment in a rodent-flea system: host litter size matters.

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Energy costs of blood digestion in a host-specific haematophagous parasite

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Energy expenditure for egg production in arthropod ectoparasites: the effect of host species ⬇️

scientific article published on May 10, 2013

Energy requirements, length of digestive tract compartments and body mass in six gerbilline rodents of the Negev Desert

scientific article published on 02 November 2019

Environment-related and host-related factors affecting the occurrence of lice on rodents in Central Europe.

scientific article

Evolution of host specificity in fleas: is it directional and irreversible?

scientific article published on 25 October 2005

Experimental evidence of negative interspecific interactions among imago fleas: flea and host identities matter

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Feeding performance of fleas on different host species: is phylogenetic distance between hosts important?

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Feeding performance on a novel host: no adaptation over generations and differential patterns in two flea species

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Fitness responses to co-infestation in fleas exploiting rodent hosts

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Flea fitness is reduced by high fractional concentrations of CO₂ that simulate levels found in their hosts' burrows

scientific article

Flea infestation does not cause a long-term increase in energy metabolism in Gerbillus nanus

scientific article published on December 2011

Flea infestation, social contact, and stress in a gregarious rodent species: minimizing the potential parasitic costs of group-living

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Gender-biased parasitism in small mammals: patterns, mechanisms, consequences

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Habitat-dependent differences in architecture and microclimate of the burrows of Sundevall's jird (Meriones crassus) (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in the Negev Desert, Israel

scientific article published in June 2002

Haemoplasmas in wild rodents: Routes of transmission and infection dynamics

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Harrison's rule scales up to entire parasite assemblages but is determined by environmental factors

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Historical biogeography of fleas: the former Bering Land Bridge and phylogenetic dissimilarity between the Nearctic and Palearctic assemblages

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Host gender and offspring quality in a flea parasitic on a rodent

scientific article published on October 2010

Host reproductive status and reproductive performance of a parasite: offspring quality and trade-offs in a flea parasitic on a rodent

scientific article

How are the host spectra of hematophagous parasites shaped over evolutionary time? Random choice vs selection of a phylogenetic lineage

scientific article published on 31 January 2008

Immune response to fleas in a wild desert rodent: effect of parasite species, parasite burden, sex of host and host parasitological experience

scientific article published on July 2004

Immune responses to fleas in two rodent species differing in natural prevalence of infestation and diversity of flea assemblages

scientific article published on October 2004

Infestation experience of a rodent host and offspring viability of fleas: variation among host-parasite associations

scientific article published on 17 September 2010

Intraspecific variation of body size in a gamasid mite Laelaps clethrionomydis: environment, geography and host dependence

scientific article published on 5 July 2015

Investigation of Bartonella acquisition and transmission in Xenopsylla ramesis fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on February 24, 2011

Is abundance a species attribute? An example with haematophagous ectoparasites

scientific article published on 4 August 2006

Is the feeding and reproductive performance of the flea, Xenopsylla ramesis, affected by the gender of its rodent host, Meriones crassus?

scientific article published on May 2009

Locomotor response to light and surface angle in three species of desert fleas

scientific article published on 29 November 2006

Male hosts drive infracommunity structure of ectoparasites

scientific article published on 16 March 2011

Metabolic rate and jump performance in seven species of desert fleas

scientific article published on February 2004

Milk production of the dam limits the growth rate of Sundevall's jird (Meriones crassus) pups

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Morphological asymmetry and habitat quality: using fleas and their rodent hosts as a novel experimental system.

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Nestedness and β-diversity in ectoparasite assemblages of small mammalian hosts: effects of parasite affinity, host biology and scale

article published in 2010

Nestedness in assemblages of helminth parasites of bats: a function of geography, environment, or host nestedness?

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Novel evidence suggests that a 'Rickettsia felis-like' organism is an endosymbiont of the desert flea, Xenopsylla ramesis.

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Parasite performance and host alternation: is there a negative effect in host-specific and host-opportunistic parasites?

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Patterns of zeta diversity in ectoparasite communities harboured by small mammals at three hierarchical scales: taxon-invariance and scale-dependence

scientific article published on 04 April 2020

Phylogenetic heritability of geographic range size in haematophagous ectoparasites: time of divergence and variation among continents.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Phylogenetic signal in module composition and species connectivity in compartmentalized host-parasite networks

scientific article published on 27 February 2012

Phylogenetic structure of host spectra in Palaearctic fleas: stability versus spatial variation in widespread, generalist species.

scientific article published on 4 September 2013

Relationships among different facets of host specificity in three taxa of haematophagous ectoparasites

scientific article published on 05 August 2017

Relationships between local and regional species richness in flea communities of small mammalian hosts: saturation and spatial scale

scientific article published on 24 December 2005

Reproductive consequences of female size in haematophagous ectoparasites

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Reproductive consequences of host age in a desert flea ⬇️

scientific article published on December 20, 2012

Reproductive performance in generalist haematophagous ectoparasites: maternal environment, rearing conditions or both?

scientific article published on 19 May 2019

Reproductive success in two species of desert fleas: density dependence and host effect

scientific article published on June 2007

Revisiting the role of dissimilarity of host communities in driving dissimilarity of ectoparasite assemblages: non-linear vs linear approach.

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Sex differences in testosterone reactivity and sensitivity in a non-model gerbil

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Sex-biased parasitism is not universal: evidence from rodent-flea associations from three biomes

scientific article published on May 2013

Sex-biased parasitism, seasonality and sexual size dimorphism in desert rodents

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Sexual size dimorphism and sex ratio in arthropod ectoparasites: contrasting patterns at different hierarchical scales

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

Similarity in ectoparasite faunas of Palaearctic rodents as a function of host phylogenetic, geographic or environmental distances: which matters the most?

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Spatial and temporal turnover of parasite species and parasite-host interactions: a case study with fleas and gamasid mites parasitic on small mammals

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Spatial variation in the phylogenetic structure of flea assemblages across geographic ranges of small mammalian hosts in the Palearctic ⬇️

scientific article published on June 4, 2013

Species and site contributions to β-diversity in fleas parasitic on the Palearctic small mammals: ecology, geography and host species composition matter the most

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Szidat's rule re-tested: relationships between flea and host phylogenetic clade ranks in four biogeographic realms

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Temporal dynamics of a T-cell mediated immune response in desert rodents

scientific article published on 16 September 2006

Temporal variation in parasite infestation of a host individual: does a parasite-free host remain uninfested permanently?

scientific article published on 21 April 2006

The effect of host age on feeding performance of fleas

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

The effects of environment, hosts and space on compositional, phylogenetic and functional beta-diversity in two taxa of arthropod ectoparasites

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

The latitudinal, but not the longitudinal, geographic range positions of haematophagous ectoparasites demonstrate historical signatures

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Transmission Dynamics of Bartonella sp. Strain OE 1-1 in Sundevall's Jirds (Meriones crassus) ⬇️

scientific article published on December 14, 2012

Variable effects of host characteristics on species richness of flea infracommunities in rodents from three continents

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Vertical nontransovarial transmission of Bartonella in fleas ⬇️

scientific article published on July 23, 2013

WATER BUDGET DURING REPRODUCTION IN FEMALE COMMON SPINY MICE (ACOMYS CAHIRINUS)

scientific article published in 2004

Water balance in two species of desert fleas, Xenopsylla ramesis and X. conformis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).

scientific article published on November 2002

What are the factors determining the probability of discovering a flea species (Siphonaptera)?

scientific article published on 5 July 2005

Wolbachia's role in mediating its flea's reproductive success differs according to flea origin

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

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