Disease and the extended phenotype: Parasites control host performance and survival through induced changes in body plan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Goodman, Brett A ^a,b   Johnson, Pieter T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FORAGING; FROG; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LOCOMOTION; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDATOR; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; FORELIMB; FROGS AND TOADS; HINDLIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANURA; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 79957461601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020193     Document Type: Article

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