Larval swimming overpowers turbulent mixing and facilitates transmission of a marine parasite

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2502-2515

  Fingerut, Jonathan T ^a,b   Zimmer, Cheryl Ann ^a   Zimmer, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; California; Cercariae; Environmental cues; Estuary; Himasthla rhigendana; Hydrodynamics; Larval transport; Parasite; Swimming; Transmission; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FLATWORM; LARVAL TRANSPORT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SWIMMING;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIGENEA; GASTROPODA; HIMASTHLA; HIMASTHLA RHIGEDANA; HIMASTHLA RHIGENDANA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TREMATODA;

EID: 0242268319     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-4035     Document Type: Article

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