Trematode infection correlates with shell shape and defence morphology in a freshwater snail
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Trematode infection correlates with shell shape and defence morphology in a freshwater snail.
Parasitism often influences the phenotype of individuals. Many of the resulting changes are due to changes in resource allocation that come with infection. Here we examine the effect of a trematode parasite on the shape and defence morphology of a New Zealand freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. The trematode Microphallus sp. asexually produces hundreds of metacercarial cysts in the snai...
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عنوان ژورنال: Parasitology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0031-1820,1469-8161
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182005007286