Cichlids: A Host of Opportunities for Evolutionary Parasitology

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 820-832

  Vanhove, Maarten P M ^a,b,c   Hablützel, Pascal I ^a   Pariselle, Antoine ^d   Šimková, Andrea ^c   Huyse, Tine ^a,b   Raeymaekers, Joost A M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

adaptive radiation; aquaculture; biogeography; cophylogeny; host specificity; invasive alien species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUACULTURE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CICHLID; ECOLOGY; HOST RANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVASION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; RESEARCH; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CICHLIDS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RESEARCH;

EID: 84991711209     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.07.002     Document Type: Review

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