Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7195, 2008, Pages 609-614

  Reece, Sarah E ^a   Drew, Damien R ^a,b   Gardner, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALARIA; PROTOZOAN; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MALARIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44449094569     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06954     Document Type: Article

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