Fish parasites resolve the paradox of missing coextinctions

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Strona, Giovanni ^a   Galli, Paolo ^a   Fattorini, Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; FISH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; FISH; HOST; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84877768201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2723     Document Type: Article

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