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ArticleEcology and evolution2017

Differential impacts of shared parasites on fitness components among competing hosts.

Olwyn C Friesen, Robert Poulin, Clément Lagrue

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Competition among host-specific lineages ofEcology and evolution · 2024
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  4. Parasitology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Olwyn C FriesenDepartment of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-4274-3868
Robert PoulinDepartment of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand.
Clément LagrueDepartment of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effects of parasites on individual hosts can eventually translate to impacts on host communities. In particular, parasitism can differentially affect host fitness among sympatric and interacting host species. We examined whether the impact of shared parasites varied among host species within the same community. Specifically, we looked at the impacts of the acanthocephalan

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host behaviorhost fitnessmultispecies infectionparasitessurvival

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PMID28690798
PMCPMC5496554

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