Effects of Snail Size and Diet on Encystment of Echinostoma caproni Cercariae in Juvenile Helisoma trivolvis (Colorado Strain) and Observations on Survival of Infected Snails

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 422-424

  Ponder, Elizabeth L ^a   Fried, Bernard ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIET; ENCYSTMENT; SNAIL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; DIETARY INTAKE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; EXPOSURE; LETTUCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SNAIL; SURVIVAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ECHINOSTOMA; SNAILS;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; GASTROPODA; HELISOMA; HELISOMA TRIVOLVIS; LACTUCA; PLANORBIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 2442533860     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-140R     Document Type: Article

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