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A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

A new index to estimate ecological generalisation in consumer‐resource interactions

scientific article published on 15 January 2024

A tale of two phylogenies: comparative analyses of ecological interactions

scientific article published on 2 January 2014

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 ⬇️

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ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF TWO SMALL MAMMALIAN SPECIES IN THE CENTRAL NEGEV ⬇️

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Abundance and distribution of fleas on desert rodents: linking Taylor's power law to ecological specialization and epidemiology.

scientific article published on December 2005

Abundance patterns and coexistence processes in communities of fleas parasitic on small mammals

scientific article published on 15 July 2005

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

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Age, intensity of infestation by flea parasites and body mass loss in a rodent host.

scientific article published on 8 May 2006

Age-dependent flea (Siphonaptera) parasitism in rodents: a host's life history matters

scientific article published on April 2006

Aggregation and species coexistence in fleas parasitic on small mammals

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An attempt to use ectoparasites as tags for habitat occupancy by small mammalian hosts in central Europe: effects of host gender, parasite taxon and season

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Annual cycles of four flea species in the central Negev desert

scientific article published on September 2002

Are ectoparasite communities structured? Species co-occurrence, temporal variation and null models

scientific article published on November 2006

Are there general rules governing parasite diversity? Small mammalian hosts and gamasid mite assemblages

scientific article published in May 2007

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

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Asymmetric disease dynamics in multihost interconnected networks

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

Author Correction: A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

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

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Beta diversity of gastrointestinal helminths in two closely related South African rodents: species and site contributions

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

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

COEVOLUTIONARY EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN JERBOAS (RODENTIA: DIPODIDAE) AND THEIR FLEA PARASITES ⬇️

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

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Co-occurrence and phylogenetic distance in communities of mammalian ectoparasites: limiting similarity versus environmental filtering

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Community structure of fleas within and among populations of three closely related rodent hosts: nestedness and beta-diversity.

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Community structure of helminth parasites in two closely related South African rodents differing in sociality and spatial behaviour.

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

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Compositional turnover in ecto- and endoparasite assemblages of an African bat, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae): effects of hierarchical scale and host sex

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Connectance and parasite diet breadth in flea-mammal webs

scientific article published on 14 December 2007

Conservatism of host specificity in parasites

scientific article published in August 2006

Contrasting responses of beta diversity components to environmental and host‐associated factors in insect ectoparasites

scientific article published in 2020

Covariance in species diversity and facilitation among non-interactive parasite taxa: all against the host

scientific article published on October 2005

Dark diversity of flea assemblages of small mammalian hosts: effects of environment, host traits and host phylogeny

scientific article published in 2022

Dark host specificity in two ectoparasite taxa: repeatability, parasite traits, and environmental effects

scientific article published in 2022

Decay of similarity of gamasid mite assemblages parasitic on Palaearctic small mammals: geographic distance, host-species composition or environment

scientific article published in October 2007

Deconstructing spatial patterns in species composition of ectoparasite communities: the relative contribution of host composition, environmental variables and geography

scientific article published in May 2010

Density dependence of feeding success in haematophagous ectoparasites

scientific article published on 20 April 2007

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

Development rates of two Xenopsylla flea species in relation to air temperature and humidity

scientific article published on September 2001

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

scientific article published on April 15, 2012

Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales

scientific article published on 3 September 2021

Distribution of fleas (Siphonaptera) among small mammals: mean abundance predicts prevalence via simple epidemiological model

scientific article published on September 2005

Diversification of ectoparasite assemblages and climate: an example with fleas parasitic on small mammals

scientific article published on 27 January 2005

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

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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

Does investment into "expensive" tissue compromise anti-parasitic defence? Testes size, brain size and parasite diversity in rodent hosts

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Driven to distraction: detecting the hidden costs of flea parasitism through foraging behaviour in gerbils

scientific article published on 12 November 2010

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

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

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Ectoparasites and age-dependent survival in a desert rodent

scientific article published on 20 January 2006

Ectoparasites associated with the Bushveld gerbil (<i>Gerbilliscus leucogaster</i>) and the role of the host and habitat in shaping ectoparasite diversity and infestations

scientific article published in 2023

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.

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Effect of air temperature and humidity on the survival of pre-imaginal stages of two flea species (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).

scientific article published on September 2001

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 anthropogenic disturbance and climate on patterns of bat fly parasitism

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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

Effects of sewage-water contamination on the immune response of a desert bat

article published in 2014

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.

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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 consequences of host colonization in two generalist fleas: Context‐dependency and the effect of spatial co‐occurrence

scientific article published in 2022

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

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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

Gastrointestinal helminths from the common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin) (Suidae), in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, with comments on helminths of Suidae and Tayassuidae worldwide

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

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

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Generalism in species interactions is more the consequence than the cause of ecological success

scientific article published in 2024

Geographical patterns of abundance: testing expectations of the ‘abundance optimum’ model in two taxa of ectoparasitic arthropods

scientific article published in December 2008

Geographical variation in the 'bottom-up' control of diversity: fleas and their small mammalian hosts

scientific article published in 2007

Global changes and the future of micromammal-macroparasite interactions

Habitat fragmentation alters the properties of a host-parasite network: rodents and their helminths in South-East Asia

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Habitat variation in species composition of flea assemblages on small mammals in central Europe

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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

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

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Helminth parasitism in two closely related South African rodents: abundance, prevalence, species richness and impinging factors

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High intervality explained by phylogenetic constraints in host-parasite webs

scientific article published in July 2008

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 Specificity, Parasite Community Size and the Relation between Abundance and its Variance

Host body microcosm and ectoparasite infracommunities: arthropod ectoparasites are not spatially segregated.

scientific article published on 5 September 2012

Host community structure and infestation by ixodid ticks: repeatability, dilution effect and ecological specialization

scientific article published on 8 August 2007

Host defence versus intraspecific competition in the regulation of infrapopulations of the flea Xenopsylla conformis on its rodent host Meriones crassus

scientific article published on 9 February 2007

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

scientific article published on October 2010

Host phylogeny and ecology, but not host physiology, are the main drivers of (dis)similarity between the host spectra of fleas: application of a novel ordination approach to regional assemblages from four continents

scientific article published in 2021

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

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Host specificity and foraging efficiency in blood-sucking parasite: feeding patterns of the flea Parapulex chephrenis on two species of desert rodents ⬇️

scientific article published on May 9, 2003

Host specificity and geographic range in haematophagous ectoparasites

scientific article published in March 2005

Host specificity in phylogenetic and geographic space

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Host-habitat relations as an important determinant of spatial distribution of flea assemblages (Siphonaptera) on rodents in the Negev Desert

scientific article published on February 1997

Host-parasite network structure is associated with community-level immunogenetic diversity

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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

Identification of the missing links in parasite–host networks using the dark diversity concept: a case study with two taxonomic groups of ectoparasitic arthropods and small mammalian hosts

scientific article published in 2022

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

Inferring associations among parasitic gamasid mites from census data

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

scientific article published on 17 September 2010

Infracommunity dynamics of chiggers (Trombiculidae) parasitic on a rodent

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Interaction frequency across the geographical range as a determinant of host specialisation in generalist fleas

scientific article published on 12 January 2008

Intra- and interspecific similarity in species composition of helminth communities in two closely-related rodents from South Africa.

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Intra- and interspecific variation in vigilance and foraging of two gerbillid rodents, Rhombomys opimus andPsammomys obesus : the effect of social environment

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

scientific article published on 5 July 2015

Intraspecific variation of body size in fleas: effects of host sex and flea phenology

scientific article published on 05 September 2020

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

Is there sex-biased resistance and tolerance in Mediterranean wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations facing multiple helminth infections?

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Latitudinal gradients in niche breadth: empirical evidence from haematophagous ectoparasites

scientific article published in April 2008

Latitudinal mismatches between the components of mammal-flea interaction networks

article published in 2011

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

Micromammals and macroparasites: Who is who and how do they interact?

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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

Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin?

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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 beta diversity, host beta diversity and environment: application of two approaches to reveal patterns of flea species turnover in Mongolia

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Parasite-specific variation and the extent of male-biased parasitism; an example with a South African rodent and ectoparasitic arthropods

scientific article published on 16 October 2009

Patterns of host specificity in parasites exploiting small mammals

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Patterns of macroparasite diversity in small mammals

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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

Pentastome assemblages of the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti (Reptilia: Crocodylidae), in the Kruger National Park, South Africa

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

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

Phylogeny determines the role of helminth parasites in intertidal food webs

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Potential parasite transmission in multi-host networks based on parasite sharing

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Regional flea and host assemblages form biogeographic, but not ecological, clusters: evidence for a dispersal-based mechanism as a driver of species composition

scientific article published in 2022

Relationship between host abundance and parasite distribution: inferring regulating mechanisms from census data

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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

Relationships between parasite abundance and the taxonomic distance among a parasite's host species: an example with fleas parasitic on small mammals

scientific article published on October 2004

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

Resource predictability and host specificity in fleas: the effect of host body mass

scientific article published on 28 March 2006

Respiratory gas exchange in the desert flea Xenopsylla ramesis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae): response to temperature and blood-feeding

scientific article published on March 2004

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

Sampling fleas: the reliability of host infestation data

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Scale-dependence of phylogenetic signal in ecological traits of ectoparasites

scientific article published in February 2011

Scale-invariance of niche breadth in fleas parasitic on small mammals

scientific article published in October 2008

Searching for general patterns in parasite ecology: host identity versus environmental influence on gamasid mite assemblages in small mammals.

scientific article

Searching for generality in the patterns of parasite abundance and distribution: ectoparasites of a South African rodent, Rhabdomys pumilio

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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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Simple epidemiological model predicts the relationships between prevalence and abundance in ixodid ticks

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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 gender-biased parasitism: host-related, parasite-related and environment-related effects

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

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 abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

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Species abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

scientific article published in July 2007

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

Species associations and trait dissimilarity in communities of ectoparasitic arthropods harboured by small mammals at three hierarchical scales

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Stability in abundance and niche breadth of gamasid mites across environmental conditions, parasite identity and host pools

scientific article published on 27 November 2007

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 dynamics of direct reciprocal and indirect effects in a host-parasite network

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

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

scientific article published on 21 April 2006

Temporal variation of metacommunity structure in arthropod ectoparasites harboured by small mammals: the effects of scale and climatic fluctuations

The comparative ecology and biogeography of parasites

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2011)

The compound topology of a continent-wide interaction network explained by an integrative hypothesis of specialization

The effect of behavioural interactions on the transfer of fleas (Siphonaptera) between two rodent species

scientific article published on December 2001

The effect of host age on feeding performance of fleas

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

The effect of water contamination and host-related factors on ectoparasite load in an insectivorous bat.

scientific article published on 22 July 2017

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

Time budget, oxygen consumption and body mass responses to parasites in juvenile and adult wild rodents

scientific article published on March 2016

Time of survival under starvation in two flea species (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) at different air temperatures and relative humidities.

scientific article published on June 2002

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

scientific article published on December 14, 2012

Ultimate mechanisms of age-biased flea parasitism

scientific article published on 9 September 2007

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 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

Why apply ecological laws to epidemiology?

scientific article

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