Small worms, big appetites: Ratios of different functional morphs in relation to interspecific competition in trematode parasites

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1063-1068

  Leung, Tommy L F ^a,b   Poulin, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Co infection; Competition; Eusociality; Life history; Philophthalmidae; Rediae; Specialised morphs; Trematoda

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; COLONIAL ORGANISM; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARASITE;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SNAIL; SPOROCYST; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HELMINTHS; MICROSCOPY; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; MARITREMA NOVAEZEALANDENSIS; PHILOPHTHALMIDAE; PHILOPHTHALMUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 79961169931     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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