A loss of fecundity in a population of mudsnails Hydrobia ventrosa caused by larval trematodes does not measurably affect host population equilibrium level

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 725-732

  Kube, S ^a   Kube, J ^b   Bick, A ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Applied Ecology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Host parasite interaction; Hydrobia; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LAGOON; LARVA; LIFESPAN; MALE; MUDSNAIL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNAIL; SPRING; SUMMER; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; WINTER;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LARVA; OVUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SNAILS; TIME FACTORS; TREMATODA;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; HYDROBIA; HYDROBIA VENTROSA; TREMATODA;

EID: 33645957352     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005009704     Document Type: Article

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