Buffering role of the intertidal anemone Anthopleura aureoradiata in cercarial transmission from snails to crabs

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 367, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-156

  Hopper, J V ^a   Poulin, R ^a   Thieltges, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anthopleura aureoradiata; Cercariae; Cercariophagy; Macrophthalmus hirtipes; Maritrema novaezealandensis; Parasitism; Transmission; Zeacumantus subcarinatus

Indexed keywords

BUFFERING; CRAB; FEEDING; FLATWORM; INTERMEDIATE HOST; INVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SNAIL;

ACTINIARIA; ALGAE; ANEMONE; ANTHOPLEURA AUREORADIATA; AUSTROVENUS STUCHBURII; BALANUS SP.; CERCARIA (TREMATODE GENUS); CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MACROPHTHALMUS HIRTIPES; MARITREMA NOVAEZEALANDENSIS; MICROPHALLIDAE; OCYPODIDAE; THORACICA; TREMATODA; ULVA; ZEACUMANTUS SUBCARINATUS;

EID: 56249130724     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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