Isotopic insight into host-endosymbiont relationships in Liolaemid lizards

Oecologia

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 355-361

  O'Grady, Shannon P ^a   Dearing, M Denise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Nematodes; Parasite; Symbioses

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

COMMENSALISM; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LIZARD; MUTUALISM; NEMATODE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PARASITIC DISEASE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; STOMACH JUICE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARBON ISOTOPES; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; LIZARDS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SECERNENTEA; SYMBIOSIS;

ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; LIOLAEMINAE; NEMATODA; PARAPHARYNGODON RIOJENSIS; PHYSALOPTERA RETUSA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33750985066     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0487-z     Document Type: Article

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