Strength in numbers: High parasite burdens increase transmission of a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies (danaus plexippus)

Oecologia

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-75

  De Roode, Jacobus C ^a   Chi, Jean ^b   Rarick, Rachel M ^a   Altizer, Sonia ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Ophryocystis elektroscirrha; Pathogen; Trade off; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; FECUNDITY; HOST PLANT; MATING BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GEORGIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POPULATION DENSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; OPHRIOCYSTIS ELEKTROSCIRRHA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 67649363649     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1361-6     Document Type: Article

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