Fitness of indirectly transmitted pathogens: Restraint and constraint

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1178-1184

  Gower, Charlotte M ^a,b   Webster, Joanne P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Genetic constraints; Indirectly transmitted pathogens; Schistosomes; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; FITNESS; LIFE CYCLE; PATHOGEN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; DIGENEA; GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 3042534400     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01698.x     Document Type: Article

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