One day is enough: Rapid and specific host-parasite interactions in a stickleback-trematode system

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 382-384

  Rauch, Gisep ^a   Kalbe, Martin ^a   Reusch, Thorsten B H ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Diplostomum pseudospathaceum; Fast and specific defence; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; FISH; FLATWORM; GENOTYPE; HOST; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIVITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREMATODE; VERTEBRATE;

DIPLOSTOMUM PSEUDOSPATHACEUM; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748648808     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0462     Document Type: Article

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