Parasite and host assemblages: Embracing the reality will improve our knowledge of parasite transmission and virulence

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1701, 2010, Pages 3693-3702

  Rigaud, Thierry ^a   Perrot Minnot, Marie Jeanne ^a   Brown, Mark J F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Immune system; Interspecies transmission; Intrahost competition; Multi host parasites; Multi parasitized hosts

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOMBINATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRADE-OFF; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78650047588     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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