Intermediate host availability masks the strength of experimentally-derived colonisation patterns in echinostome trematodes

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 585-590

  Detwiler, Jillian T ^a   Minchella, Dennis J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Echinostomes; Experimental infections; Field infections; Host availability; Host colonisation; Host specificity; Second intermediate hosts; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENCOUNTER RATE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLATWORM; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITIC DISEASE; POND; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LYMNAEA; SEASONS; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LYMNAEA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VETERINARY;

EID: 59749101117     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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