Modularity in attachment organs of African Cichlidogyrus (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) reflects phylogeny rather than host specificity or geographic distribution

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 694-706

  Vignon, Matthias ^a,b,c,g   Pariselle, Antoine ^d   Vanhove, Maarten P M ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (French Polynesia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^g CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation biogeography Cichlidae constraints evolution geometric morphometrics haptor parasite

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ANCYROCEPHALIDAE; CICHLIDAE; CICHLIDOGYRUS; MONOGENEA; PISCES; PLATYHELMINTHES; VERMES;

EID: 79751500741     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01607.x     Document Type: Article

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