Does the early frog catch the worm? Disentangling potential drivers of a parasite age-intensity relationship in tadpoles

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1031-1042

  Raffel, Thomas R ^a   Lloyd Smith, James O ^b   Sessions, Stanley K ^c   Hudson, Peter J ^d   Rohr, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age intensity; Echinostoma trivolvis; Metacercariae; Overdispersion; Rana clamitans

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGGRESSION; BREEDING SEASON; FLATWORM; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; METAMORPHOSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; TIME; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANURA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; RANA CLAMITANS; TREMATODA;

EID: 79952705090     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1776-0     Document Type: Article

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