Environmental parasitology: What can parasites tell us about human impacts on the environment?

Parasitology Today

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 251-255

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; REVIEW; SNAIL;

CILIOPHORA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0030758745     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(97)01072-7     Document Type: Review

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