Parasite-associated growth enhancement in a fish-cestode system

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1444, 2000, Pages 657-663

  Arnott, Stephen A ^a,b   Barber, Iain ^a,b   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cestode; Gasterosteus; Gigantism; Growth; Host parasite manipulation; Schistocephalus solidus

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; GROWTH RATE; PARASITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CESTODIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GROWTH RATE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034616377     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1052     Document Type: Article

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