| rodents, their seasonal activity, ecto- and blood-parasites in saint catherine area, south sinai governorate, egypt. | rodents are on the top of animal reservoirs of zoonotic parasites. five species of wild rodents were trapped on monthly base from saint catherine area. the highest trap index was 0.5 in may and the lowest was zero in december, january and february. the dominant rodents were acomys c. dimidiatus followed by dipodillus d. dasyurus and then a. r. russatus. sporadic numbers of sekeetamys c. calurus (3) and eliomys. qu. melanurus (2) were collected. the ectoparasites in a descending order of abundanc ... | 1998 | 9914704 |
| annual cycles of four flea species in the central negev desert. | bionomics of fleas (siphonaptera) parasitizing rodent hosts, mostly the gerbil gerbillus dasyurus (wagner) and the jird meriones crassus sundevall (gerbillidae), were investigated in the central negev desert of israel. populations were sampled weekly (by sherman trapping of hosts) from august 2000 to july 2001. among 1055 fleas of nine species captured, four species predominated (94%). two species of pulicidae, xenopsylla dipodilli smit and x. ramesis (rothschild), reproduced perennially, wherea ... | 2002 | 12243227 |
| habitat dependence of a parasite-host relationship: flea (siphonaptera) assemblages in two gerbil species of the negev desert. | flea assemblages of meriones crassus sundevall and gerbillus dasyurus wagner in different habitats in the negev highlands of israel were studied to determine how flea abundance and species composition on the same host change among habitats, and the environmental parameters determining specific composition of flea assemblage. fleas of the same species parasitizing different hosts responded differently to the same set of environmental variables. spatial distribution of fleas on m. crassus was dete ... | 1998 | 9615550 |
| metabolic rate and jump performance in seven species of desert fleas. | we hypothesized that sexual and interspecific differences in jumping performance of fleas found in our previous study are correlated with differences in resting metabolic rate (rmr) between sexes and among species. to test this hypothesis, we measured rmr of seven flea species (xenopsylla conformis mycerini, xenopsylla ramesis, xenopsylla dipodilli, parapulex chephrenis, synosternus cleopatrae pyramidis, nosopsyllus iranus theodori and stenoponia tripectinata medialis). we compared rmr between s ... | 2010 | 15019516 |