Prevalence, geographic distribution, and fitness effects of Microphallus turgidus (Trematoda: Microphallidae) in grass shrimp (Palaemonetes spp.) from coastal Georgia

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-92

  Pung, Oscar J ^a   Khan, Ritindra N ^a   Vives, Stephen P ^a   Walker, Casey B ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DENSITY;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITISM; SALINITY; SHRIMP; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HAPLOSPORIDIA; MICROPHALLIDAE; MICROPHALLUS; MICROPHALLUS TURGIDUS; PALAEMONETES; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PALAEMONETES VULGARIS; TREMATODA; UROSPORIDIUM CRESCENS;

EID: 0036200464     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[0089:PGDAFE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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