Host starvation decreases parasite load and mean host size in experimental populations

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 823-833

  Pulkkinen, Katja ^a,b   Ebert, Dieter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna; Experimental epidemiology; Glugoides intestinalis; Microsporidia; Stress induced immunosuppression; Stress induced mortality

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; HOST QUALITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORTALITY; PARASITE INTENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STARVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; GLUGOIDES INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; MICROSPORIDIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642465409     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0185     Document Type: Article

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