Effect of the digenean parasite Proterometra macrostoma on host morphology in the freshwater snail Elimia livescens

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 262-267

  Krist, Amy C ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; SNAIL;

ARTICLE; GROWTH RATE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEROMETRA MACROSTOMA; SNAIL;

BASOMMATOPHORA; ELIMIA LIVESCENS; GASTROPODA; NOTOSCOPELUS; PROTEROMETRA MACROSTOMA;

EID: 0034036727     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0262:eotdpp]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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