The effect of Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda) cysticercoids on the weight change, frass production, and food intake of the intermediate host, Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Shea, John F ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY WEIGHT; CESTODE; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FECES; FEMALE; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; MALE; PUPA; TENEBRIO;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; COLEOPTERA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 27944505505     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0021-y     Document Type: Article

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