Mate choice, frequency dependence, and the maintenance of resistance to parasitism in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 407-418

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

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASOMMATOPHORA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 33747880572     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icj047     Document Type: Article

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