Effect of intermediate host size (Cerastoderma edule) on infectivity of cercariae of Himasthla quissetensis (Echinostomatidae: Trematoda)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 809-812

  De Montaudouin, Xavier ^a   Jensen, K Thomas ^b   Desclaux, Céline ^a   Wegeberg, Anne M ^b   Sajus, Marie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; VIRULENCE;

AQUITAINE; ARCACHON BAY; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GIRONDE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; GASTROPODA; HIMASTHLA; HIMASTHLA CONTINUA; HIMASTHLA ELONGATA; HIMASTHLA INTERRUPTA; HIMASTHLA QUISSETENSIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 22944478653     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405011744     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Curtis, L.A., 1997. Ilyanassa obsoleta (Gastropoda) as a host for trematodes in Delaware estuaries. Journal of Parasitology, 83, 793-803.
2. de Montaudouin, X., Kisidewski, I., Bachelet, G. & Desclaux, C., 2000. A census of macroparasites in an intertidal bivalve community, Arcachon Bay, France. Oceanologica Acta, 23, 453-468.
3. Desclaux, C., de Montaudouin, X. & Bachelet, G., 2002. Cockle emergence at the sediment surface: 'favourization' mechanism by digenean parasites? Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 52, 137-149.
4. Desclaux, C., de Montaudouin, X. & Bachelet, G., 2004. Cockle (Cerastoderma edule) population mortality: the role of the digenean parasite Himasthla quissetensis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 279, 141-150.
5. Granovitch, A. & Johannesson, K., 2000. Digenetic trematodes in four species of Littorina from the west coast of Sweden. Ophelia, 53, 55-65.
6. Huxham, M., Maitland, D. & Mocogni, M., 2001. Respiration rates in Littorina littorea infected with three species of digenean parasite. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81, 351-352.
7. Lauckner, G., 1983. Diseases of Mollusca: Bivalvia. In Diseases of marine animals (ed. O. Kinne), pp. 477-961. Hamburg: Biologische Anstalt Helgöland.
8. Lebour, M.V., 1911. A review of the British marine cercariae. Parasitology, 4, 416-456.
9. Loos-Frank, B., 1967. Experimentelle Untersuchungen über Bau, Entwicklung und Systematik der Himasthlinae (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae) des Nordsecraumes. Zweitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 28, 299-351.
10. Prévot, G., 1974. Recherches sur le cycle biologique et l'écologie de quelques trématodes nouveaux parasites de Larus argentatus michaellis Naumann dans le midi de la France. PhD thesis, University of Law, Economy and Sciences, Aix-Marscille, France.
11. Russell-Pinto, F., 1993. Espécies de digenea que infectam Cerastoderma edule (n.v. berbigão) em Portugal, Caracterizaçã o da resposta do hospedeiro à infestação. PhD thesis, University of Porto, Portugal.
12. Stunkard, H.W., 1938. The morphology and life cycle of the trematode Himasthla quissetensis (Miller and Northup, 1926). Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 75, 145-164.
13. Uzmann, J.R., 1951. Record of the larval trematode Himasthla quissetensis (Miller and Northup, 1926) Stunkard, 1934 in the clam, Mya arenaria. Journal of Parasitology, 37, 327-328.
14. Vahl, O., 1972. Porosity of the gill, oxygen consumption and pumping rate in Cardium edule (L.) (Bivalvia). Ophelia, 10, 109-118.
15. Wegeberg, A.M., de Montaudouin, X. & Jensen, K.T., 1999. Effect of intermediate host size (Cerastoderma edule) on infectivity of cercariae of three Himasthla species (Echinostomatidae, Trematoda). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 238, 259-269.
16. Werding, B., 1969. Morphologie, Entwicklung und Ökologie digener Trematoden-Larven der Strandschnecke Littorina littorea. Marine Biology, 3, 306-333.