Within-host transmission strategies of transovarial, feminizing parasites of Gammarus duebeni

Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-30

  Dunn, A M ^a   Terry, R S ^a   Taneyhill, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branching process; Gammarus duebeni; Microsporidian; Nosema; Octosporea effeminans; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HOST; MALE; MICROSPORUM; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INDOLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSPORIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOSEMA; OVARY; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; GAMMARUS DUEBENI; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORUM; NOSEMA;

EID: 0031926465     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098002753     Document Type: Article

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