Egg production in adult trematodes: Adaptation or constraint?

Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-204

  Poulin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

egg size; fecundity; host body size; phylogenetic contrasts; trade off

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; FERTILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031045432     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182096008372     Document Type: Article

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