TY - JOUR
T1 - Molluscan defence mechanisms
T2 - Immunity or population biology?
AU - Shiff, C. J.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - In recent studies of associations between host and parasite, there has been a tendency to consider the internal defence mechanisms of the mollusc as pivotal in the relationship. However, evolution is a population-based phenomenon, and it is by considering populations rather than individuals that the success of these associations can best be appreciated. Among susceptible host species within the biocoenosis, truly resistant strains appear to be remarkably rare. Clive Shiff here examines mechanisms of defence or avoidance among molluscan hosts of tremotodes from both the internal and ecological perspective.
AB - In recent studies of associations between host and parasite, there has been a tendency to consider the internal defence mechanisms of the mollusc as pivotal in the relationship. However, evolution is a population-based phenomenon, and it is by considering populations rather than individuals that the success of these associations can best be appreciated. Among susceptible host species within the biocoenosis, truly resistant strains appear to be remarkably rare. Clive Shiff here examines mechanisms of defence or avoidance among molluscan hosts of tremotodes from both the internal and ecological perspective.
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U2 - 10.1016/0169-4758(94)90027-2
DO - 10.1016/0169-4758(94)90027-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 15275470
AN - SCOPUS:0028266045
VL - 10
SP - 188
EP - 190
JO - Trends in Parasitology
JF - Trends in Parasitology
SN - 1471-4922
IS - 5
ER -