How specialists can be generalists: Resolving the and "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease

Zoologia

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-162

  Agosta, Salvatore J ^a   Janz, Niklas ^b   Brooks, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coevolution; Ecological fitting; Host shift; Plant insect interactions; Sloppy fitness

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

EID: 79251562549     PISSN: 19844670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000200001     Document Type: Review

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