Insight into the role of cetaceans in the life cycle of the tetraphyllideans (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda)

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 243-255

  Aznar, F J ^a   Agusti C ^a   Littlewood, D T J ^b   Raga, J A ^a   Olson, P D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cetacean; Clistobothrium; Life cycle; Molecular diagnostics; Monorygma grimaldii; Phyllobothrium delphini; Plerocercoid; Tetraphyllidea

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; CONSPECIFIC; DIVERGENCE; DNA; FLATWORM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST USE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ARTICLE; CESTODE; CETACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MARINE MAMMAL; MONORYGMA GRIMALDII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLOBOTHRIUM DELPHINI; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLATYHELMINTH; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; DOLPHINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CEPHALOPODA; CESTODA; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CLISTOBOTHRIUM; INVERTEBRATA; LAMNIDAE; MAMMALIA; MONORYGMA GRIMALDII; PHYLLOBOTHRIUM DELPHINI; PLATYHELMINTHES; TETRAPHYLLIDEA;

EID: 33846113753     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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