Influence of odonate intermediate host ecology on the infection dynamics of Halipegus spp., Haematoloechus longiplexus, and haematoloechus complexus (trematoda: digenea)

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-7

  Wetzel, Eric J ^a   Esch, Gerald W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Haematoloechus complexus; Haematoloechus longiplexus; Halipegus spp.; Host specificity; Odonate

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042861388     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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