Modeling the ecology of symbiont-mediated protection against parasites

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 595-605

  Kwiatkowski, Marek ^a,b   Vorburger, Christoph ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Costs of resistance; Ecological immunity; Endosymbionts; Host parasite interaction

Indexed keywords

APHID; COEXISTENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDOSYMBIONT; HERITABILITY; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; WASP;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859723808     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665003     Document Type: Article

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