Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 9006-9011

  Johnson, Pieter T J ^a   Hoverman, Jason T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Ecosystem function; Emerging infectious disease; Microbiome; Parasite competition

Indexed keywords

ALARIA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEPHALOGONIMUS AMERICANUS; CLINOSTOMUM ATTENUATUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; HOST FITNESS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; METAGENOME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

AMPHIBIA; TREMATODA;

EID: 84861886363     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201790109     Document Type: Article

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