Expression of parasite virulence at different host population densities under natural conditions

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-255

  Bieger, Annette ^a,b   Ebert, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competition experiment; Context dependent virulence; Daphnia magna; Octosporea bayeri

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; CRUSTACEAN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MESOCOSM; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAPHNIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSPORIDIA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; VIRULENCE;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; OCTOSPOREA BAYERI;

EID: 67349200318     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1297-x     Document Type: Article

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