Partitioning average competition and extreme-genotype effects in genetically diverse infections

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 399-405

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOTYPE; PARASITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; TELEOST;

TREMATODA;

EID: 39849093589     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16301.x     Document Type: Article

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