The rules for symbiont community assembly change along a mutualism-parasitism continuum

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 843-853

  Skelton, James ^a   Doak, Sam ^b   Leonard, Meredith ^b   Creed, Robert P ^c   Brown, Bryan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleaning symbiosis; Crayfish; Mutualisms; Ontogeny; Parasite; Parasite ecology; Succession; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; COLONIZATION; CRAYFISH; GROOMING; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MUTUALISM; PARASITE; PREDATION; SUCCESSION; SYMBIONT;

ASTACOIDEA;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANNELID; CRAYFISH; FEMALE; GROOMING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRGINIA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; ASTACOIDEA; FEMALE; GROOMING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84960862611     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12498     Document Type: Article

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