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ArticleInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife2019

Role of temperature and carbonate system variability on a host-parasite system: Implications for the gigantism hypothesis.

M R García-Huidobro, O Varas, M George-Nascimento, J Pulgar, M Aldana, M A Lardies, N A Lagos

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Article in International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

M R García-HuidobroCentro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CiiCC), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Santo Tomás, Ejército 146, Santiago, Chile.
O VarasDepartamento de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, República 440, Santiago, Chile.
M George-NascimentoDepartamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Casilla 297, Concepción, Chile.
J PulgarDepartamento de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, República 440, Santiago, Chile.
M AldanaCentro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CiiCC), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Santo Tomás, Ejército 146, Santiago, Chile.
M A LardiesDepartamento de Ciencias, Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
N A LagosCentro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CiiCC), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Santo Tomás, Ejército 146, Santiago, Chile.
Universidad Santo Tomás · CLUniversidad Andrés Bello · CLAdolfo Ibáñez University · CLUniversidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción · CL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological interactions and environmental constraints alter life-history traits, modifying organismal performances. Trematode parasites often impact their hosts by inducing parasitic castration, frequently correlated with increased body size in the host (i.e., gigantism hypothesis), which is postulated to reflect the re-allocation of energy released by the reduction in the reproductive process. In this study, we compared the effect of a trematode species on shell size and morphology in adult individuals of the intertidal mussels

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Body sizeChilean coastEnvironmental variabilitymusselsparasitesshell

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