Host fecundity reduction: A strategy for damage limitation?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 363-368

  Hurd, Hilary ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; EGG PRODUCTION; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFESPAN; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PARASITE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SNAIL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTS; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

EID: 0035414142     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)01927-4     Document Type: Review

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