Publications

sex-biased parasitism is not universal: evidence from rodent-flea associations from three biomes.	the distribution of parasites among individual hosts is characterised by high variability that is believed to be a result of variations in host traits. to find general patterns of host traits affecting parasite abundance, we studied flea infestation of nine rodent species from three different biomes (temperate zone of central europe, desert of middle east and tropics of east africa). we tested for independent and interactive effects of host sex and body mass on the number of fleas harboured by a ...	2013	23636459
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
leishmaniasis in israel: reservoir hosts, sandfly vectors and leishmanial strains in the negev, central arava and along the dead sea.	the reservoir animals, sandfly vectors and strains of leishmania from foci in the southern region of israel were studied. the rodent host species are: psammomys obesus, meriones crassus and probably nesokia indica. the vector species are phlebotomus papatasi, which were caught at all collecting sites and ph. sergenti, which were collected in the area of the dead sea and in the central arava. strains of leishmania major isolated from rodents, vectors and man were serologically and enzymologically ...	1984	6385358