Beyond immunity: Quantifying the effects of host anti-parasite behavior on parasite transmission

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1043-1050

  Daly, Elizabeth W ^a   Johnson, Pieter T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Amphibian deformities; Emerging disease; Trait mediated effects

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; FLATWORM; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOASSAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOSTOMA; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POPULATION DENSITY; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ECHINOSTOMA; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RIBEIROIA; TREMATODA;

EID: 79952696074     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1778-y     Document Type: Article

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