Serial passage of the parasite Crithidia bombi within a colony of its host, Bombus terrestris, reduces success in unrelated hosts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1587, 2006, Pages 655-659

  Yourth, Christopher P ^a,b   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental evolution; Host heterogeneity; Host parasite co evolution; Serial passage; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BEE; COEVOLUTION; COLONY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; HOST PLANT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRITHIDIA BOMBI;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BEES; CRITHIDIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33646452635     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3371     Document Type: Article

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