Cost of resistance: Relationship between reduced fertility and increased resistance in a snail schistosome host-parasite system

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1417, 1999, Pages 391-396

  Webster, J P ^a   Woolhouse, M E J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomphalaria glabrata; Coevolution; Costs of resistance; Fecundity; Fertility; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

INFECTIVITY; MORTALITY; PARASITISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ANIMALIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 0033593874     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0650     Document Type: Article

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