Population dynamics of Chaetogaster limnaei (Oligochaeta: Naididae) in the field populations of freshwater snails and its implications as a potential regulator of trematode larvae community

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-33

  Ibrahim, Mohamed Moussa ^a  

^a Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BULINUS; CHAETOGASTER LIMNAEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOST; INFECTION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; OLIGOCHAETA; SNAILS; TIME FACTORS; TREMATODA;

BASOMMATOPHORA; BELLAMYA UNICOLOR; BULINUS TRUNCATUS; CHAETOGASTER LIMNAEI; GASTROPODA; NAIDIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 34247603148     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0436-0     Document Type: Article

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