Life history covariation in intestinal nematodes of mammals

A. Skorping; A. F. Read; A. E. Keymer

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Life history covariation in intestinal nematodes of mammals

A. Skorping, A. F. Read, A. E. Keymer

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Using data on 66 species from 18 families and 6 orders, examined patterns of interspecific covariation in female size, egg size, time from infection to production of infective stages (prepatency period), duration of reproduction (patency period), and fecundity in mammalian intestinal nematodes. Nematode species with shorter prepatency periods are smaller, have lower rates of somatic growth, lower fecundity and shorter reproductive periods; those with longer prepatency periods have the opposite suite of characters. -from Authors

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	365-372
Number of pages	8
Journal	Oikos
Volume	60
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/3545079
State	Published - 1991

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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