Standardized method for experimental infection of tiger puffer Takifugu rubripes with oncomiracidia of Heterobothrium okamotoi (monogenea: diclidophoridae) with some data on the oncomiracidial biology

Fish Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 215-221

  Chigasaki, Manabu ^a   Nakane, Motoyuki ^a   Ogawa, Kazuo ^a   Wakabayashi, Hisatsugu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFSE; Heterobothrium okamotoi; Monogenea; Oncomiracidium; Takifugu rubripes; Tiger puffer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034555238     PISSN: 0388788X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3147/jsfp.35.215     Document Type: Article

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