Trematode metacercariae of fishes as sentinels for a changing limnological environment

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-150

  Dzikowski, R ^a   Diamant, A ^b   Paperna, I ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Cichlidae; Diversity indices; Fishes; Lake Kinneret; Metacercariae; Species richness; Trematode

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ISRAEL; LAKE KINNERET;

BOLBOPHORUS LEVANTINUS; BULINUS; BULINUS TRUNCATUS; CENTROCESTUS; CICHLIDAE; CLINOSTOMUM; CLINOSTOMUM TILAPIAE; EUCLINOSTOMUM HETEROSTOMUM; GASTROPODA; HAPLORCHIS; MELANOIDES; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; MELANOPSIS; MELANOPSIS COSTATA; NEASCUS; OREOCHROMIS; OREOCHROMIS AUREUS; PHAGICOLA LONGA; PISCES; PYGIDIOPSIS; PYGIDIOPSIS GENATA; SAROTHERODON; SAROTHERODON GALILAEUS; STRIGEIDAE; TILAPIA ZILLII; TREMATODA;

EID: 0042267429     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao055145     Document Type: Article

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