Phenology of recruitment and infection patterns of Ascocotyle pachycystis, a digenean parasite in the sheephead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-96

  Coleman, Felicia C ^a   Travis, Joseph ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion patterns; Estuary; Host fitness; Host parasite population dynamics; Killifish; Trematode

Indexed keywords

PARASITE INFECTION; PHENOLOGY; RECRUITMENT; SHEEPSHEAD MINNOW;

USA, FLORIDA;

ASCOCOTYLE PACHYCYSTIS; CYPRINODON VARIGATUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031884113     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007341322937     Document Type: Article

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