Gut wash, body soak, blender and heat-fixation: Approaches to the effective collection, fixation and preservation of trematodes of fishes

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Cribb, Thomas H ^a   Bray, Rodney A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FISH; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESERVATION; TREMATODE;

ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; FISHES; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOT TEMPERATURE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TREMATODA;

APOROCOTYLIDAE; DIDYMOZOIDAE; PISCES; SATURNIUS; TRANSVERSOTREMATIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 75949116447     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-010-9229-z     Document Type: Article

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