Developmental and functional ultrastructure of Ornithodiplostomum ptychocheilus diplostomula (Trematoda: Strigeoidea) during invasion of the brain of the fish intermediate host, Pimephales promelas

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 635-642

  Conn, David Bruce ^a   Goater, Cameron P ^a,b   Bray, Douglas ^a,b  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BRAIN; CYPRINID; FLATWORM; INTERMEDIATE HOST; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FISH; INTEGUMENT; INTERMEDIATE HOST; METACERCARIA; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; ORNITHODIPLOSTOMUM PTYCHOCHEILUS; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE MIGRATION; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHICKENS; CYPRINIDAE; FISH DISEASES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ORNITHODIPLOSTOMUM PTYCHOCHEILUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; STRIGEOIDEA; TREMATODA;

EID: 47349130514     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1421R.1     Document Type: Article

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