Recruitment rate of gymnophallid metacercariae in the New Zealand cockle Austrovenus stutchburyi: An experimental test of the hitch-hiking hypothesis

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-287

  Leung, Tommy L F ^a   Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BURROWING SPECIES; COCKLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; GYMNOPHALLID; HYPOTHESIS; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; CARDIIDAE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; NEW ZEALAND; SYMBIOSIS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

AUSTROVENUS STUCHBURII; AVES; GYMNOPHALLIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 34250867627     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0479-x     Document Type: Article

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