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Fleas: Permanent satellites of small mammals

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Micromammals and Macroparasites

Concluding remarks

Fleas are strongly specialized to periodic ectoparasitism on small mammals and demonstrate a variety of life histories and associations with their hosts. This makes fleas a very convenient model for testing hypotheses related to evolutionary ecology of parasitism. Some of these studies will be reviewed in further chapters of this book.

We thank Michael Hastriter for the helpful comments on the earlier version of this chapter.

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  1. Center for Biology and Management of Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30016 34988, Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex, France

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  2. Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede-Boqer Campus, 84990, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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Medvedev, S.G., Krasnov, B.R. (2006). Fleas: Permanent satellites of small mammals. In: Morand, S., Krasnov, B.R., Poulin, R. (eds) Micromammals and Macroparasites. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-36025-4_10

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