Selection of the host's habitat by cercariae: From laboratory experiments to the field

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1233-1238

  Haas, Wilfried ^a   Beran, Bernadett ^a   Loy, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FLATWORM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; LIGHT INTENSITY; POND; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; LIGHT; LYMNAEA; MICE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA;

DIPLOSTOMUM SPATHACEUM; ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; PSEUDECHINOPARYPHIUM ECHINATUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 58549120575     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1192.1     Document Type: Article

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