How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease
The parasite paradox arises from the dual observations that parasites (broadly construed, including phytophagous insects) are resource specialists with restricted host ranges, and yet shifts onto relatively unrelated hosts are common in the phylogenetic diversification of parasite lineages and direc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Zoologia (Curitiba) |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702010000200001 |