Hematozoa of teleosts from lizard island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 778-788

  Smit, Nico J ^a   Grutter, Alexandra S ^a,b   Adlard, Robert D ^a,c   Davies, Angela J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DEFINITIVE HOST; ECTOPARASITE; HEMOPARASITE; ISOPOD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROTOZOAN; TELEOST;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COPEPOD; ECTOPARASITE; FISH; HAEMOGREGARINA BALISTAPI; HAEMOGREGARINA BIGEMINA; HAEMOGREGARINA TETRAODONTIS; HAEMOHORMIDIUM; LEECH; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; SPECIES; TELEOST; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; COPEPODA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; ERYTHROCYTES; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; ISOPODA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; QUEENSLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LIZARD ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ACANTHURIDAE; ANTHOZOA; CALIGIDAE; COPEPODA; GNATHIA; GNATHIIDAE; HAEMOGREGARINA; HAEMOGREGARINA BIGEMINA; HAEMOHORMIDIUM; HIRUDINIDA; ISOPODA; PISCES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748919059     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-756R.1     Document Type: Article

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