Specialist by preference, generalist by need: availability of quality hosts drives parasite choice in a natural multihost–parasite system
Darío E. Manzoli, María José Saravia-Pietropaolo, Sofía I. Arce, Alejandro Percara, Leandro R. Antoniazzi, Pablo M. Beldoménico
Topics & Concepts
Host (biology)BiologyParasite hostingAttractivenessQuality (philosophy)Function (biology)Generalist and specialist speciesPreferenceEcologyZoologyEvolutionary biologyComputer scienceHabitatPsychologyStatisticsWorld Wide WebMathematicsPsychoanalysisEpistemologyPhilosophyBird parasitology and diseasesParasite Biology and Host InteractionsEvolution and Genetic Dynamics