Halfway up the trophic chain: Development of parasite communities in the sparid fish Boops boops

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-268

  Olmo, A Pérez Del ^a,b   Fernandez M ^a   Raga, J A ^a   Kostadinova, A ^a,c   Poulin, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Boops boops; Community development; Mediterranean; Nested structure; Parasites; Sparidae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESTODE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COPEPOD; DIGENEA; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISOPODA; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONOGENEA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PARASITE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; FISH DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE;

BOOPS BOOPS; SPARIDAE;

EID: 38549147449     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007003691     Document Type: Article

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