A behavioral study of the beetle Tenebrio molitor infected with cysticercoids of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 305-308

  Sheiman, I M ^a   Shkutin, M F ^a   Terenina, N B ^b   Gustafsson, M K S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LEARNING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CESTODE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; RODENT; STRESS; TENEBRIO;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HYMENOLEPIS; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RATS; TENEBRIO;

COLEOPTERA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 33744804297     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0103-4     Document Type: Article

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