Arms Race Coevolution: The Local and Geographical Structure of a Host-Parasite Interaction

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-31

  Medel, Rodrigo ^a   Mendez, Marco A ^a   Ossa, Carmen G ^a   Botto Mahan, Carezza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cactus; Chile; Geographic mosaic of coevolution; Host parasite; Mistletoe; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870597464     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0191-7     Document Type: Article

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