Parthenogenetic flatworms have more symbionts than their coexisting, sexual conspecifics, but does this support the Red Queen?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 110-119

  Michiels, N K ^a,c   Beukeboom, L W ^b   Pongratz, N ^a   Zeitlinger, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost of sex; Dugesia; Mutation hypothesis; Parasite hypothesis; Parthenogenesis; Platyhelminthes; Protozoa; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; PARASITIC INFECTION; RED QUEEN; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

EID: 0035114072     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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