Desiccation-tolerance in bdelloid rotifers facilitates spatiotemporal escape from multiple species of parasitic fungi

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 564-574

  Wilson, Christopher G ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient asexuality; Anhydrobiosis; Dispersal; Dormancy; Evolution of sex; Parasites; Red Queen

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DESICCATION; DORMANCY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; METAPOPULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROPAGULE; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BDELLOIDA; BDELLOIDEA (ROTIFERA); FUNGI; METAZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 80054683608     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01737.x     Document Type: Article

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