Rearing density and susceptibility of Rana pipiens metamorphs to cercariae of a digenetic trematode

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 543-547

  Dare, Oluwayemisi K ^a   Rutherford, Pamela L ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLATWORM; FROG; LARVA; MESOCOSM; METAMORPHOSIS; REARING;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FROG; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; TREMATODE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RANA PIPIENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

AMPHIBIA; METAMORPHA; PHYSA; RANA PIPIENS; TREMATODA;

EID: 33746475759     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-674R1.1     Document Type: Article

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