Effects of water temperature and substrate type on spore production and release in eastern Tubifex tubifex worms infected with Myxobolus cerebralis

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-26

  Blazer, Vicki S ^a   Waldrop, Thomas B ^a,b   Schill, William B ^a   Densmore, Christine L ^a   Smith, David ^a  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Freshwater Institute Shepherdstown   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; SPORULATION; SUBSTRATE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INFECTION RATE; MYXOBOLUS CEREBRALIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PROTOZOON; SAND; SPOROGENESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; WATER TEMPERATURE; WORM;

ANIMALS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OLIGOCHAETA; PROTOZOA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE;

INVERTEBRATA; MYXOBOLUS; MYXOBOLUS CEREBRALIS; PROTOZOA; TRIACTINOMYXON; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0037325686     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0021:EOWTAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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