Interesting open questions in disease ecology and evolution

American Naturalist

Volumn 184, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages

  Lively, Curtis M ^a   de Roode, Jacobus C ^b   Duffy, Meghan A ^c   Graham, Andrea L ^d   Koskella, Britt ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANTS; VIRUSES;

EID: 84905041386     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677032     Document Type: Article

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