Density dependence and the spread of anthelmintic resistance

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 528-537

  Churcher, Thomas S ^a   Basáñez, María Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Drug resistance; Metapopulations; Onchocerca volvulus; Overdispersion; Population regulation; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELECTION; SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVIDS; GENETICS; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RUMINANTS;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; VERMES;

EID: 40449095937     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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