Genetic dissimilarity between mates, but not male heterozygosity, influences divorce in schistosomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Beltran, Sophie ^a   Cézilly, Frank ^b   Boissier, Jérôme ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; SCHISTOSOMA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 54449090682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003328     Document Type: Article

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