Size-dependent pattern of metacercariae accumulation in Macomona liliana: The threshold for infection in a dead-end host

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 177-180

  Leung, Tommy L F ^a   Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTROVENUS STUTCHBURYI; BIVALVE; ECHINOSTOMA; FILTRATION; HOST; INFECTION RATE; MACOMONA LILIANA; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIVALVIA; CARDIIDAE; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS;

AUSTROVENUS STUCHBURII; BIVALVIA; MACOMONA LILIANA; TREMATODA;

EID: 55949087074     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1166-2     Document Type: Article

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