Opposing selective pressures decouple pattern and process of parasitic infection over small spatial scale
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J. E. Byers ([email protected]) and C. L. Keogh, Odum School of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. – A. J. Malek and L. E. Quevillon, Shoals Marine Laboratory, Univ. of New Hampshire, 24 Colovos Rd., School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, Durham, NH 03824, USA. Present address for AJM: Graduate School of Oceanography, Univ. of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA. Present address for LEQ: Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, State College, Penn State Univ., PA 16802, USA. – I. Altman, Biology Dept, Boston Univ., 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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