Life-cycle complexity in helminths: What are the benefits?
Life-cycle complexity in helminths: What are the benefits?
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St. Louis: Wiley
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Parasitic worms (i.e., helminths) commonly infect multiple hosts in succession. With every transmission step, they risk not infecting the next host and thus dying before reproducing. Given this risk, what are the benefits of complex life cycles? Using a dataset for 973 species of trophically transmitted acanthocephalans, cestodes, and nematodes, we...
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Life-cycle complexity in helminths: What are the benefits?
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2546598776
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2546598776
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0014-3820
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1558-5646
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10.1111/evo.14299
