Complex life-cycles in trophically transmitted helminths: Do the benefits of increased growth and transmission outweigh generalism and complexity costs?
Why do so many parasitic worms have complex life-cycles? A complex life-cycle has at least two hypothesized costs: (i) worms with longer life-cycles, i.e. more successive hosts, must be generalists at the species level, which might reduce lifetime survival or growth, and (ii) each required host tran...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-01-01
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Series: | Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667114X22000115 |