Alternative life cycle strategies and colonization of young anurans by gorgoderina attenuata in Nebraska

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 604-616

  Bolek, Matthew G ^a,b   Snyder, Scott D ^a,c   Janovy Jr , John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FLATWORM; FROG; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FROG; GORGODERINA ATTENUATA; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TREMATODE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIVALVE; BLADDER; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; TOAD; TREMATODIASIS; UNITED STATES;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

ANURA; BIVALVIA; GORGODERIDAE; GORGODERINA ATTENUATA; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA PIPIENS; TREMATODA; ZYGOPTERA;

HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIVALVIA; BUFONIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; KIDNEY; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NEBRASKA; PREVALENCE; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA PIPIENS; SEASONS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 73949107797     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1813.1     Document Type: Article

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