How did parasitic worms evolve?

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 496-499

  Viney, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CHOLESTANE DERIVATIVE; DAFACHRONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENT; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLESTENES; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NEMATODA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 66449120240     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900010     Document Type: Article

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