Swimming performance of silver eels is severely impaired by the swim-bladder parasite Anguillicola crassus

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 244-256

  Palstra, A P ^a   Heppener, D F M ^a   van Ginneken, V J T ^a   Szekely C ^b   van den Thillart, G E E J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anguillicola crassus (Kuwahara, Niimi and Hagaki, 1974); Environmental constraint; European eel Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus 1758); Oxygen consumption; Reproductive migration; Swimming efficiency; Swimming endurance

Indexed keywords

EEL; MIGRATION; NEMATODE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARASITE; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLICOLA CRASSUS;

EID: 35148896883     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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