Ecological and genetic determinants of multiple infection and aggregation in a microbial host-parasite system

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1373-1383

  Fels, D ^a,c   Vignon, M ^a,b   Kaltz, O ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Experimental epidemiology; Holospora undulata; Induced resistance; Mass action; Multiple infection; Paramecium caudatum; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HOLOSPORA; HOLOSPORA UNDULATA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOLOSPORACEAE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HOLOSPORA UNDULATA; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 54349104734     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004940     Document Type: Article

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