Chemo-orientation of echinostome cercariae towards their snail host: Amino acids signal a low host-specificity

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 511-516

  Körner, Martina ^a   Haas, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Cercariae; Chemo orientation; Echinostoma revolutum; Host specificity; Host finding; Pseudechinoparyphium echinatum; Snail host

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SILVER NITRATE; WATER;

AMINO ACID; CERCARIAE; CHEMO-ORIENTATION; HOST SPECIFICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; SNAIL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; SNAILS; WATER;

ANIMALIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA REVOLUTUM; GASTROPODA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PSEUDECHINOPARYPHIUM; PSEUDECHINOPARYPHIUM ECHINATUM; PSEUDOCHINOPARYPHIUM; PSEUDOCHINOPARYPHIUM ECHINATUM; PSEUDOECHINOPARYPHIUM; PSEUDOECHINOPARYPHIUM ECHINATUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 0032033516     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(97)00196-3     Document Type: Article

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