Heterogeneity in infection outcome: Lessons from a bumblebee-trypanosome system

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 339-349

  Sadd, B M ^a   Barribeau, S M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Genetic resistance; Innate immunity; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

BUMBLEBEE; CRITHIDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; BEE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEES; CRITHIDIA; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; POLLINATION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84885403019     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pim.12043     Document Type: Review

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