Resources, key traits and the size of fungal epidemics in Daphnia populations

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1010-1017

  Civitello, David J ^a   Penczykowski, Rachel M ^b,d   Smith, Aimee N ^a   Shocket, Marta S ^a   Duffy, Meghan A ^c   Hall, Spencer R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epidemics; Fungus; Parasite Daphnia; Reproduction; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; CRUSTACEAN; EPIDEMIC; FECUNDITY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA DENTIFERA; FUNGI; METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; DAPHNIA; EPIDEMIC; FERTILITY; FOOD CHAIN; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LAKE; METSCHNIKOWIA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DAPHNIA; EPIDEMICS; FERTILITY; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LAKES; METSCHNIKOWIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84932196639     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12363     Document Type: Article

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