Correlation between parasite prevalence and adult size in a trematode-mollusc system: Evidence for evolutionary gigantism in the freshwater snail Galba truncatula?

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-396

  Chapuis, Elodie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLLUSC; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SNAIL; TRADE-OFF;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GALBA TRUNCATULA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; TREMATODA;

EID: 70350503781     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: 14643766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyp035     Document Type: Article

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