Life-history trade-offs in a generalist digenean from cetaceans: the role of host specificity and environmental factors
Abstract Background Adults and larvae of generalist parasites are exposed to diverse hosts and local environmental conditions throughout their life cycles, thus local adaptation is expected to occur through phenotypic plasticity and/or natural selection. We investigated how the combined effect of cr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Parasites & Vectors |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1273-8 |