Host manipulation as a parasite transmission strategy when manipulation is exploited by non-host predators

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 663-666

  Seppälä, Otto ^a,b   Jokela, Jukka ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Host behaviour; Host phenotype; Non host predation; Parasite host interactions

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION RISK;

ARTICLE; HOST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 58149216524     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0335     Document Type: Article

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