Evolutionary avenues for, and constraints on, the transmission of frog lung flukes (Haematoloechus spp.) in dragonfly second intermediate hosts

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 593-607

  Bolek, Matthew G ^a   Janovy Jr , John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAGONFLY; FLATWORM; FROG; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; BULLFROG; DAMSELFLY; DRAGON FLY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; FLY; HAEMATOLOECHUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS COLORADENSIS; HAEMATOLOECHUS COMPLEXUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS LONGIPLEXUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS PARVIPLEXUS; HEAD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LAND BIOME; METACERCARIA; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARAGONIMUS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; THORAX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRESH WATER; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NEBRASKA; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ANURA; HAEMATOLOECHUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS COLORADENSIS; HAEMATOLOECHUS COMPLEXUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS LONGIPLEXUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS PARVIPLEXUS; HAEMATOLOECHUS VARIOPLEXUS; HEXAPODA; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA BLAIRI; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA PIPIENS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 34447134098     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1011R.1     Document Type: Article

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