Infestation of an introduced host, the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, by a symbiotic nemertean egg predator, Carcinonemertes epialti

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 449-453

  Torchin, Mark E ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CRAB; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; OVUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CARCINONEMERTES EPIALTI; CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; HEMIGRAPSUS OREGONENSIS; NEMERTEAN; DECAPODA; NEMERTEA;

EGG PREDATION; EUROPEAN GREEN CRAB; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTRODUCED CRAB; SYMBIOSIS;

USA, CALIFORNIA, BODEGA HARBOR;

EID: 0029660087     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284084     Document Type: Article

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