Interactions among co-infecting parasite species: A mechanism maintaining genetic variation in parasites?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1657, 2009, Pages 691-697

  Seppälä, Otto ^a,b   Karvonen, Anssi ^c   Valtonen, E Tellervo ^c   Jokela, Jukka ^a,b  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Concomitant infections; Diplostomum gasterostei; Diplostomum spathaceum; Mixed infections; Multiple infections; Trematoda

Indexed keywords

FISH; FLATWORM; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM;

DIPLOSTOMUM GASTEROSTEI; DIPLOSTOMUM SPATHACEUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 58249133757     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1229     Document Type: Article

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