Crowding and disease: Effects of host density on response to infection in a butterfly-parasite interaction

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 551-561

  Lindsey, Elizabeth ^b   Mehta, Mudresh ^b   Dhulipala, Varun ^b   Oberhauser, Karen ^c   Altizer, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Danaus plexippus; Density dependent prophylaxis; Host parasite interaction; Melanism; Monarch butterfly; Neogregarine protozoan; Ophryocystis elektroscirrha

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MELANISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL;

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

EID: 70349162805     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01107.x     Document Type: Article

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