Gyro-scope: An individual-based computer model to forecast gyrodactylid infections on fish hosts

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 541-548

  van Oosterhout, C ^a   Potter, R ^a   Wright, H ^a   Cable, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gyrodactylids; Gyrodactylus bullatarudis; Gyrodactylus salaris; Gyrodactylus turnbulli; Immune defence; Individual based model; Predictive modelling; Resistance; Teleost

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FORECASTING METHOD; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GYRODACTYLID INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PLATYHELMINTHS; POECILIA;

GYRODACTYLIDAE; GYRODACTYLUS; GYRODACTYLUS BULLATARUDIS; GYRODACTYLUS SALARIS; GYRODACTYLUS TURNBULLI; POECILIA RETICULATA; SALMO SALAR; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 39449102732     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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