Migratory behaviour and host-parasite co-evolution in natural populations of monarch butterflies infected with a protozoan parasite

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 611-632

  Altizer, Sonia M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Danaus plexippus; Host resistance; Neogregarine; Ophryocystis elektroscirrha; Seasonal migration; Virulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043094436     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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