Parasite evolution and extinctions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 176-182

  Boots, Michael ^a   Sasaki, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extinction; Frequency dependent transmission; Modelling; Parasites; Virulence

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MODELING; PARASITE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037363259     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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