Effect of age of the intermediate host Tribolium confusum (Coleoptera) on infection by Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 152-157

  Shostak, Allen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BEETLE; FASTING; FECUNDITY; FLATWORM; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MORTALITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; CESTODIASIS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEX RATIO; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; MALE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRIBOLIUM;

CESTODA; COLEOPTERA; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM;

EID: 40949144538     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1300.1     Document Type: Article

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