Determinants of the parasite community of clariid fishes from Lake Victoria, Tanzania

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-16

  Mwita, Chacha ^a   Nkwengulila, Gamba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIODIVERSITY; CESTODIASIS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DIPLOSTOMUM MASHONENSE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FISH; FISH DISEASE; HIRUDINEA; MALE; METAZOON; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITOSIS; SYNECOLOGY; TANZANIA; TREMATODIASIS; TYLODELPHYS;

ANIMALS; CATFISHES; CESTODA; CRUSTACEA; DIET; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTESTINES; LEECHES; MALE; MOUTH; NEMATODA; PARASITES; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; TREMATODA;

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CLARIIDAE; DIPLOSTOMUM; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PISCES; TREMATODA; TYLODELPHYS;

EID: 43049132183     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X07839745     Document Type: Article

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