Costs, benefits, and loss of vertically transmitted symbionts affect host population dynamics

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1512-1520

  Yule, Kelsey M ^a   Miller, Tom E X ^b   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^b,c  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; GRASS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; ONTOGENY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION GROWTH; SIZE STRUCTURE; SYMBIONT;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS HYEMALIS;

EID: 84890855600     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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