Vicious circle in the intertidal: Facilitation between barnacle epibionts, a shell boring polychaete and trematode parasites in the periwinkle Littorina littorea

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-95

  Thieltges, David W ^a   Buschbaum, Christian ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basibiont; Epibionts; Epibiosis; Periwinkle; Trematode

Indexed keywords

BORING ORGANISM; EPIBIONT; FACILITATION; FLATWORM; FOULING; GASTROPOD; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; POLYCHAETE; SNAIL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BALANUS CRENATUS; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CILIOPHORA; GASTROPODA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; POLYCHAETA; POLYDORA CILIATA; THORACICA; TREMATODA;

EID: 33750605458     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.08.014     Document Type: Article

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