Sticklebacks as model hosts in ecological and evolutionary parasitology

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 556-566

  Barber, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease; Evolutionary ecology; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Host parasite interactions; Parasitism; Schistocephalus solidus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID; ARTHROPOD; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CESTODIASIS; CNIDARIA; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAUNA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATE CHOICE; MOLLUSC; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; PROTIST; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS; TELEOSTEI;

DISEASE; EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PARASITISM; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARASITOLOGY; RESEARCH; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 84887014944     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2013.09.004     Document Type: Review

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