Histopathological effects of larval trematode infections in mudsnails and their impact on host growth: What causes gigantism in Hydrobia ventrosa (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)?

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-68

  Probst, Sandra ^a   Kube, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Growth; Histopathology; Hydrobia ventrosa; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; GIGANTISM; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARVA; MATURATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; SNAIL; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALIA; ASYMPHYLODORA DEMELI; CRYPTOCOTYLE; CRYPTOCOTYLE CONCAVUM; GASTROPODA; HIMASTHLA; HYDROBIA VENTROSA; LEVINSENIELLA; LEVINSENIELLA BRACHYSOMA; MARITREMA SUBDOLUM; MICROPHALLUS; PARAMONOSTOMUM ALVEATUM; PROSOBRANCHIA; TREMATODA;

EID: 0033135702     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(99)00002-7     Document Type: Article

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