Local Interactions Lead to Pathogen-Driven Change to Host Population Dynamics

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1660-1664

  Boots, Michael ^a   Childs, Dylan ^a   Reuman, Daniel C ^b   Mealor, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CELLIMMUNO; ECOL_EVOL

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GRANULOVIRUS; LARVA; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; VIROLOGY; VISCOSITY;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE MEDIA; GRANULOVIRUS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISCOSITY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 70349782097     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.070     Document Type: Article

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