What makes a specialist special?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 333-334

  Timms, R ^a   Read, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PIGEON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

ACARI; COLUMBA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 0032768873     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01697-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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