Adult sex ratio affects divorce rate in the monogamous endoparasite Schistosoma mansoni

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1363-1368

  Beltran, Sophie ^a   Cézilly, Frank ^b   Boissier, Jérôme ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Adult sex ratio; Better option hypothesis; Forced divorce hypothesis; Monogamy; Schistosomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DIVORCE; ENDOPARASITE; FLATWORM; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; MONOGAMY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

INVERTEBRATA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650421795     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0757-y     Document Type: Article

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