Multiple infections: Relatedness and time between infections affect the establishment and growth of the cestode Schistocephalus solidus in its stickleback host

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 616-622

  Jäger, Ilonka ^a   Schjørring, Solveig ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gasterosteus aculeatus; Multiple infection; Parasite transmission; Relatedness of parasites; Schistocephalus solidus; Simultaneous and sequential infection; Within host dynamics

Indexed keywords

FISH; FLATWORM; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RELATEDNESS;

CESTODA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME;

ANIMALS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; SMEGMAMORPHA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646942784     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-450.1     Document Type: Article

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