Contaminant effects on host-parasite interactions: Atrazine, frogs, and trematodes

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2166-2170

  Koprivnikar, Janet ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^b   Baker, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Cercariae; Environmental parasitology; Tadpole; Trematode

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CROPS; HERBICIDES;

MULTISPECIES INTERACTIONS; PARASITISMS; TADPOLES; TREMATODE PARASITES;

IMPURITIES;

ATRAZINE;

ATRAZINE; FLATWORM; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERCARIA (TREMATODE LARVA); CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FROG; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANA SYLVATICA; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; RANIDAE; TREMATODA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANURA; GASTROPODA; RANA SYLVATICA; TREMATODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 35348921081     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-220.1     Document Type: Article

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