title: [Landscape aspects of host-parasite relationships between parasitic arthropods and the narrow-skulled vole Microtus gregalis (Rodentia) in Western Siberia].
abstract: Comparative zoogeographic analysis of outcomes accumulated in the course of long-term investigation the parasitic and free-living arthropods (Acarina: Parasitiformes; Insecta: Siphonaptera) associated with three subspecies of the narrow-skulled vole (Microtus gregalis gregalis, M. g. major, M. g. eversmanni) in various landscape zones and subzones in a flat part of Western Siberia, foothills of the Altai-Sayan mountain system and mountains of Southwest Altai. The obtained data, on the one hand, recover specific features of certain parasite communities that reflect ecological peculiarity of a host species living in conditions of concrete landscapes, on the other hand, a high degree of similarity between species set of some ectoparasitic and nidicolous arthropod groups from different subspecies of M. gregalis. The systematic list of ectoparasitic and nidicolous arthropods associated with M. gregalis and representing Gamasoidea mites, ticks and fleas is provided.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mal'kova
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Bogdanov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D003411:Arvicolinae / Q000145:classification / Q000469:parasitology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D012800:Siberia; D013045:Species Specificity