Parasite transmission between soft-bottom invertebrates: Temperature mediated infection rates and mortality in Corophium volutator

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 151, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 123-134

  Mouritsen, Kim N ^a   Jensen, K Thomas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavioural change; Corophium volutator; Hydrobia ulvae; Microphallids; Mortality; Parasitism; Population dynamics; Temperature; Tidal flat; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; INFECTION RATE; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITISM; TEMPERATURE; TIDAL FLATS; TRANSMISSION;

AMPHIPODA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; GASTROPODA; HYDROBIA; MARITREMA SUBDOLUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 0030618562     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps151123     Document Type: Article

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