Host-finding in Echinostoma caproni: Miracidia and cercariae use different signals to identify the same snail species

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 479-486

  Haberl, B ^a   Korner M ^a   Spengler, Y ^a   Hertel, J ^a   Kalbe, M ^a   Haas, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cercariae; Chemo orientation; Echinostoma caproni; Host finding; Miracidia; Snail host

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLYCOPROTEIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PEPTIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; EGYPT; FRACTIONATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST; HYDROPHILICITY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MIRACIDIUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SNAIL; SPECIES;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MICE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

EID: 0034017634     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005697     Document Type: Article

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