Marine parasites as pollution indicators: An update

Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Williams, H H ^a,b   Mackenzie, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indicators; Marine pollution; Parasites

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DICLIDOPHORA MERLANGI; DICTYOCOTYLE COELIACA; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HYDROCARBONS; LARVA; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

DICLIDOPHORA; DICLIDOPHORA MERLANGI; DICTYOCOTYLE COELIACA; MONOGENEA;

EID: 0344874162     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182003003640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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