The role of light and gravity in the experimental transmission of echinostoma caproni (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) cercariae to the second intermediate host, biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 512-516

  Platt, Thomas R ^a   Burnside, Lindsay ^a   Bush, Elizabeth ^a  

^a SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYLCHLORIDE;

DEFINITIVE HOST; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FLATWORM; FORAGE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; LIGHT EFFECT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SNAIL;

ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; CERCARIA (TREMATODE LARVA); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRAVITY; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIGHT; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTAXIS; ANIMAL; BIOMPHALARIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; DIGENEA (FLUKES); ECHINOSTOMA CAPRONI; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; GASTROPODA; PULMONATA; TREMATODA;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; GRAVITATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR;

EID: 73949146477     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1779.1     Document Type: Article

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