Moderate echinostoma trivolvis infection has no effects on physiology and fitness-related traits of larval pickerel frogs (Rana palustris)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 787-792

  Orlofske, Sarah A ^a,b   Belden, Lisa K ^a   Hopkins, William A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENCYSTMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; FITNESS; FLATWORM; FROG; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METABOLISM; PARASITE INFESTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FROG; GROWTH RETARDATION; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LARVA; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL; TADPOLE; TREMATODIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BREATHING RATE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL;

AMPHIBIA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; RANA PALUSTRIS;

ANIMALS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LARVA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RANIDAE; RESPIRATORY RATE; SNAILS;

EID: 73949131447     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1840.1     Document Type: Article

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