Host manipulation by parasites and risk of non-host predation: Is manipulation costly in an eye fluke-fish interaction?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 871-879

  Seppälä, Otto ^a   Karvonen, Anssi ^a   Valtonen, E Tellervo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diplostomum spathaceum; Parasite host interactions; Transmission; Trematoda

Indexed keywords

AVES; DIPLOSTOMUM SPATHACEUM; ESOX INDUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PISCES; TREMATODA;

EID: 33746483924     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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