Single-clone and mixed-clone infections versus host environment in Crithidia bombi infecting bumblebees

Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 331-336

  Imhoof, B ^a   Schmid Hempel, P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; Crithidia bombi; Host heterogeneity; Mixed infections; Parasite; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEES; CLONE CELLS; CRITHIDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, CELLULOSE ACETATE; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031785943     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098003138     Document Type: Article

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