Helminth infracommunity structure of the sympatric garter snakes Thamnophis eques and Thamnophis melanogaster from the Mesa Central of Mexico

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 454-460

  Jiménez Ruiz, F Agustín ^a   García Prieto, Luis ^a   Pérez Ponce De León, Gerardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SNAKE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATOR; PREVALENCE; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPATRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

MESA CENTRAL; MEXICO;

AMPHIBIA; COLUBRIDAE; CONTRACAECUM; MELANOGASTER; PROTEOCEPHALUS; PROTEOCEPHALUS VARIABILIS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SPIROXYS; SPIROXYS SUSANAE; TELORCHIS; TELORCHIS CORTI; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS EQUES; THAMNOPHIS MELANOGASTER; VERMES;

EID: 0036297439     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[0454:hisots]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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