The crowding effect and morphometric variability in Echinostoma caproni (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) from ICR mice

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 242-246

  Stillson, Lindsey L ^a,b   Platt, Thomas R ^a  

^a SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORPHOMETRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; FEMALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CROWDING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FEMALE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; POPULATION DENSITY;

DIGENEA (FLUKES); ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; MUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 34249103931     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1015R.1     Document Type: Article

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