Using parasites to inform ecological history: Comparisons among three congeneric marine snails

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1068-1078

  Blakeslee, April M H ^a,b   Byers, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Chao2; Cryptocotyle lingua; Enemy release; Europe; Intertidal snails; Introduced species; Littorina littorea; Littorina obtusata; Littorina saxatilis; Nonindigenous species; North America; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; HISTORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARASITE; PARASITISM; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; NORTH AMERICA; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CRYPTOCOTYLE LINGUA; GASTROPODA; LITTORINA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; LITTORINA OBTUSATA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 42949142218     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0832.1     Document Type: Article

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