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How a complex life cycle can improve a parasite's sex life.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jul 2005

Rauch G, Kalbe M, Reusch T B H

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How complex life cycles of parasites are maintained is still a fascinating and unresolved topic. Complex life cycles using three host species, free-living stages, asexual and sexual reproduction are widespread in parasitic helminths. For such life cycles, we propose here that maintaining a second intermediate host in the life cycle can be advantageous for the individual parasite to increase the intermixture of...

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PMID: 16033580
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00895.x

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