Virulence and competitiveness: Testing the relationship during inter- and intraspecific mixed infections

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2643-2652

  Staves, Peter A ^a   Knell, Robert J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entomopathogen; Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; Metarhizium anisopliae; Mixed infection; Steinernema feltiae

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; EXPLOITATION; FITNESS; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEMATODE; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; METARHIZIUM; MOTHS; NEMATODA; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE;

EID: 77956402790     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00999.x     Document Type: Article

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