[The size of small mammals and the number of fleas parasitizing them].
Correlation analysis of many-year's data on the distribution and number of fleas parasitizing on 281,627 mammals of 21 species in the pest natural foci of the Aral Sea coastal area has demonstrated that the number of mammalian ectoparasites was determined by ecological features as well as by the size of animals: higher numbers of bloodsucking insects could parasitize on animals of a larger size. Values of correlation coefficients of Spearman ranks between body size and number of fleas are high and significant. This fact has remained unnoticed, probably, due to extreme variability in the fleas number indicators obtained in epizootiological studies. This makes their suitability to important studies requiring high precision of the initial data rather doubtful.
Burdelov
L A
LA
Zhurbanazarov
I Zh
IZh
Rudenchik
N F
NF
D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001824:Body Constitution; D001830:Body Surface Area; D004463:Ecology; D005618:Fresh Water; D006197:Hair; D007623:Kazakhstan; D008322:Mammals / Q000469:parasitology*; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000302:isolation & purification*
Razmery melkikh mlekopitaiushchikh i chislennost' parazitiruiushchikh na nikh blokh.