Patterns of infection by lungworms, rhabdias ranae and haematoloechus spp., in northern leopard frogs: A relationship between sex and parasitism

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 275-280

  Dare, Oluwayemisi K ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; FROG; HIBERNATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; JUVENILE; NEMATODE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; HAEMATOLOECHUS; HIBERNATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; RHABDIAS RANAE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLE INFECTION; TREMATODE; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CANADA; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LUNG; LUNG INFECTION; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; STRONGYLOIDEA; TREMATODIASIS;

ANURA; HAEMATOLOECHUS; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; NEMATODA; RANA PIPIENS; RHABDIAS RANAE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; RANA PIPIENS; RHABDIASOIDEA; RHABDITIDA INFECTIONS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 67651097791     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1713.1     Document Type: Article

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