Ecology and evolution in a host-parasitoid system : Host search, immune responses and parasitoid virulence
In host-parasitoid systems, there is a continuous coevolutionary arms race where each species imposes a strong selection pressure on the other. The host needs to develop defence strategies in order to escape parasitism and the parasitoid must evolve counter-defence strategies in order to overcome th...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik
2015
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-115243 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7649-103-4 |