Sex-specific effects of a parasite evolving in a female-biased host population

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Duneau, David ^a,b   Luijckx, Pepijn ^a,c   Ruder, Ludwig F ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biased sex ratio; Castration; Daphnia; Gigantism; Local adaptation; Pasteuria; Sex specific adaptation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DAPHNIA; PASTEURIA; PASTEURIA RAMOSA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DAPHNIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PASTEURIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CELL COUNT; DAPHNIA; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; PARASITES; PASTEURIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATOZOA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871123790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-104     Document Type: Article

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