A gastropod scavenger serving as paratenic host for larval helminth communities in shore crabs

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 862-864

  Latham, A D M ^b   Fredensborg, B L ^a   McFarland, L H ^a   Poulin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCAVENGER;

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SCAVENGER;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ECOSYSTEM; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PREDATOR; SOFT TISSUE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREMATODE;

ACANTHOCEPHALA; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; HELMINTHS; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; TREMATODA;

NEW ZEALAND;

ACANTHOCEPHALA (WORMS); AVES; BUCCINIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; GRAPSIDAE; MARITREMA; NEMATODA; TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 0141632867     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-73R     Document Type: Article

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