Do eel parasites reflect the local crustacean community? A case study from the Rhine river system

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-189

  Thielen, Frankie ^a   Münderle, Marcel ^a   Taraschewski, Horst ^a   Sures, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOCEPHALUS; ACANTHOCEPHALUS ANGUILLAE; ACANTHOCEPHALUS LUCII; ANGUILLICOLA CRASSUS; BOTHRIOCEPHALUS CLAVICEPS; CAMALLANUS LACUSTRIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ECHINORHYNCHUS TRUTTAE; EEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MYXIDIUM GIARDI; MYXOBOLUS KOTLANI; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARAQUIMPERIA TENERRIMA; PARASITE; POMPHORHYNCHUS LAEVIS; PROTEOCEPHALUS MACROCEPHALUS; PROTOZOON; PSEUDOCAPILLARIA TOMENTOSA; PSEUDODACTYLOGYRUS; RAPHIDASCARIS ACUS; RIVER; SPINITECTUS INERMIS; TRYPANOSOMA GRANULOSUM;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CRUSTACEA; EELS; FISH DISEASES; GERMANY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RIVERS;

ACANTHOCEPHALA (WORMS); ACANTHOCEPHALUS ANGUILLAE; ACANTHOCEPHALUS LUCII; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLICOLA CRASSUS; BOTHRIOCEPHALUS CLAVICEPS; CAMALLANUS LACUSTRIS; CESTODA; CRUSTACEA; ECHINORHYNCHUS TRUTTAE; MONOGENEA; MYXIDIUM GIARDI; MYXOBOLUS; NEMATODA; PARAQUIMPERIA TENERRIMA; POMPHORHYNCHUS LAEVIS; PROTEOCEPHALUS MACROCEPHALUS; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOCAPILLARIA TOMENTOSA; PSEUDODACTYLOGYRUS; RAPHIDASCARIS ACUS; SPINITECTUS; TRYPANOSOMA GRANULOSUM;

EID: 34250740807     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X07753725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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