Factors influencing the distribution of digenetic trematode infections in a mudsnail (Hydrobia ventrosa) population inhabiting salt marsh ponds in Iceland

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-59

  Skirnisson, Karl ^a   Galaktionov, Kirill V ^b   Kozminsky, Eugeny V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PARASITE; SALTMARSH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CRYPTOCOTYLE CONCAVUM; DEFECATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT USE; HYDROBIA VENTROSA; ICELAND; LITTORAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARITREMA SUBDOLUM; MICROPHALLUS BREVIATUS; MICROPHALLUS CLAVIFORMIS; MICROPHALLUS PIRUM; NONHUMAN; POND; PSILOSTOMUM BREVICOLLE; SALT MARSH; SEDIMENT; SHOREBIRD; SNAIL; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE VECTORS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; ICELAND; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PREVALENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SNAILS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

AVES; CRYPTOCOTYLE; GASTROPODA; HETEROPHYIDAE; HYDROBIA; HYDROBIA VENTROSA; MARITREMA SUBDOLUM; MICROPHALLIDAE; MICROPHALLUS; NOTOCOTYLIDAE; PSILOSTOMATIDAE; PSILOSTOMUM; PSILOSTOMUM BREVICOLLE; TREMATODA;

EID: 1442299362     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-118R     Document Type: Article

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