Shape variation of cystscercoids of hymenolepis diminuta (cyclophyllidea) from fed, partially fed, and fasted tribolium confusum (coleoptera)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 756-763

  Shostak, Allen W ^a   Walsh, John G ^a   Wong, Yuen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FLATWORM; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SIZE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; CYSTICERCOID; DIET; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; MATING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; RAT; TECHNIQUE; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

COLEOPTERA; CYCLOPHYLLIDEA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 33748925359     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-765R.1     Document Type: Article

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