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Are Sick Individuals Weak Competitors? Competitive Ability of Snails Parasitized by a Gigantism-Inducing Trematode

Parasitized individuals are often expected to be poor competitors because they are weakened by infections. Many trematode species, however, although extensively exploiting their mollusc hosts, also induce gigantism (increased host size) by diverting host resources towards growth instead of reproduct...

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Hauptverfasser: Seppälä, Otto, Karvonen, Anssi, Kuosa, Marja, Haataja, Maarit, Jokela, Jukka
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3814966/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205383
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079366
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