Mating behaviour in schistosomes: Are paired worms always faithful?

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 231-236

  Tchuem Tchuenté, Louis Albert ^a,c   Southgate, Vaughan Robert ^a   Combes, Claude ^b   Jourdane, Joseph ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Ctr Biol d'Ecologie Trop M   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 0029885247     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10020-X     Document Type: Review

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