Large-scale patterns in trematode richness and infection levels in marine crustacean hosts

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 389, Issue , 2009, Pages 139-147

  Thieltges, David W ^a   Fredensborg, Brian L ^b   Studer, Anja ^a   Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustaceans; Infection patterns; Latitudinal gradient; Metacercariae; Parasitism; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; CRAB; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PARASITISM; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMPHIPODA; BRACHYURAN; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; TREMATODA;

EID: 70349544183     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08188     Document Type: Article

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