When is a parasite species a species?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 121-124

  Kunz, Werner ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SELFING; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; TERMINOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036498251     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02210-3     Document Type: Review

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