Competitive suppression in mixed-clone parasite cultures

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 108-111

  Taylor, Louise H ^a,c   Matthews, Louise ^a   Shaw, Darren J ^a   Haydon, Daniel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Mixed cultures; Replication rates; Theileria annulata

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; CATTLE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PARASITISM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLONE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEILERIA ANNULATA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; PROTOZOA; THEILERIA ANNULATA;

EID: 27444446146     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0256     Document Type: Article

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