Food-environment mediates the outcome of specific interactions between a bumblebee and its trypanosome parasite

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2995-3001

  Sadd, Ben M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; Crithidia bombi; Food environment; Genotype by genotype by environment; Host parasite

Indexed keywords

BEE; COEVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD QUALITY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CRITHIDIA; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; CRITHIDIA; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 80053441906     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01345.x     Document Type: Article

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