Parasite transmission in social interacting hosts: Monogenean epidemics in guppies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Johnson, Mirelle B ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^b   van Oosterhout, Cock ^c   Cable, Joanne ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECTOPARASITE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GUPPY; GYRODACTYLOSIS; GYRODACTYLUS TURNBULLI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMARY INFECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; CESTODIASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISH DISEASE; HUMAN RELATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLATYHELMINTH; TIME;

GYRODACTYLIDAE; GYRODACTYLUS TURNBULLI; MONOGENEA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CESTODE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PLATYHELMINTHS; POECILIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052286146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022634     Document Type: Article

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