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PREVIOUS reports on an investigation of the relationship between ectoparasite and host1 have shown that the economy of an ectoparasite can be adversely affected by various changes brought about in the host. So far, these changes have been induced by artificial means. We owe to Buxton2 the precise demonstration that, even in Nature, all individuals of the same species are not equally good hosts. Buxton showed that when fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) are reared on baby mice the females begin to oviposit after a considerable delay and produce less eggs than on an adult mouse. In these experiments the baby mice were separated from the mothers for 24-hr, periods.
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DE MEILLON, B., HARDY, F. Fate of Cimex lectularius on Adult and on Baby Mice. Nature 167, 151–152 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167151b0
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