Host specificity and the distribution-abundance relationship in a community of parasites infecting fishes in streams of North Carolina

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 446-453

  Barger, Michael A ^a   Esch, Gerald W ^a  

^a PERU STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FISH; HOST SPECIFICITY; PARASITE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

PISCES;

EID: 0036288045     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[0446:hsatda]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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