Variation in life cycle affects the distance decay of similarity among bluegill sunfish parasite communities

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1484-1486

  Fellis, K Joel ^a,b   Esch, Gerald W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE;

ARTICLE; BLUEGILL SUNFISH; BODY COMPOSITION; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY SIMILARITY DECAY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE DISPERSAL; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LINEAR MODELS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PERCIFORMES; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 32544442195     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-578R.1     Document Type: Article

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