Navigation within host tissues: Cercariae orientate towards dark after penetration

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-113

  Grabe, K ^a   Haas, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DIPLOSTOMUM SPATHACEUM; HOST; HYPOTHESIS; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE MIGRATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SKIN SURFACE; SWIMMING; TISSUE; TRICHOBILHARZIA OCELLATA;

AGAR; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; DARKNESS; DUCKS; FISH DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MOVEMENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WATER;

AVES; DIPLOSTOMUM; DIPLOSTOMUM SPATHACEUM; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPATHACEUM; TRICHOBILHARZIA; TRICHOBILHARZIA OCELLATA;

EID: 3042631019     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-1045-9     Document Type: Article

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