Spatial and temporal escape from fungal parasitism in natural communities of anciently asexual bdelloid rotifers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1765, 2013, Pages

  Wilson, Christopher G ^a   Sherman, Paul W ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Coevolution; Dispersal; Dormancy; Evolution of sex; Red Queen

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; COEVOLUTION; DESICCATION; DISPERSAL; DORMANCY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOSS; PARASITISM; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BDELLOIDA; BRYOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; ROTIFERA;

ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DESICCATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DESICCATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; ROTIFERA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; WIND;

EID: 84894719544     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1255     Document Type: Article

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