Alternative paths to success in a parasite community: Within-host competition can favor higher virulence or direct interference

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 900-907

  Bashey, Farrah ^a   Hawlena, Hadas ^b   Lively, Curtis M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Bacteriocins; Coexistence; Coinfection; Diversity; Entomopathogenic nematodes; Exploitative competition; Interspecific competition; Steinernema; Xenorhabdus

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; COEXISTENCE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FITNESS; INSECT; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; NEMATODE; PARASITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHABDITIDA; SYMBIOSIS; SYMPATRY; VIRULENCE; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; RHABDITIDA; SYMBIOSIS; SYMPATRY; VIRULENCE; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 84874734234     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01825.x     Document Type: Article

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