Impact of parasite sympatry on the geographic mosaic of coevolution

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 382-394

  Johnson, Christine A ^a   Herbers, Joan M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Geographic mosaic of coevolution; Interference effects; Intraguild interactions; Protomognathus americanus; Slave making ants; Temnothorax curvispinosus; Temnothorax duloticus; Temnothorax minutissimus

Indexed keywords

ANT; COEVOLUTION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HOST SPECIFICITY; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

FORMICIDAE; LEPTOTHORAX; PROTOMOGNATHUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 33644835002     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1093     Document Type: Article

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