Direct and indirect pathways of fitness-impact in a protozoan-infected kissing bug

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-30

  Botto Mahan, Carezza ^a   Ossa, Carmen Gloria ^a   Medel, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Gonad weight; Mepraia spinolai; Reduviidae; Reproductive investment; Triatominae; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vector parasite interaction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; DISEASE VECTOR; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; INSECT; ONTOGENY; PARASITISM; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PROTOZOAN; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; TOLERANCE;

HEXAPODA; MEPRAIA SPINOLAI; PROTOZOA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 38949117960     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2007.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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