Muscles or testes? Comparative evidence for sexual competition among dioecious blood parasites (Schistosomatidae) of vertebrates

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-56

  Morand, S ^a   Muller Graf C D M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Blood parasites; Comparative analyses; Sex ratio; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TESTIS;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; MUSCLES; PHYLOGENY; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTIS;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); HETEROBILHARZIA; MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; SCHISTOSOMATIUM; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0343920770     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005235     Document Type: Article

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