Species' Life-History Traits Explain Interspecific Variation in Reservoir Competence: A Possible Mechanism Underlying the Dilution Effect

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Zheng Y X ^a   de Boer, Willem F ^a   van Langevelde, Frank ^a   Olson, Valerie ^b,c   Blackburn, Tim M ^c,d   Prins, Herbert H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DISEASE CARRIER; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION RISK; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLUTCH SIZE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, EASTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EASTERN EQUINE; GENETIC VARIATION; HORSES; HOST SPECIFICITY; LITTER SIZE; LYME DISEASE; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 84872838842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054341     Document Type: Article

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