Here and there: A preliminary note on the prevalence of an alien rhizocephalan parasite at the Southern and Northern limits of its introduced range

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1387-1390

  Innocenti, Gianna ^a   Galil, Bella S ^b   Yokes, Mehmet Baki ^c   Diamant, Ariel ^d   Goren, Menachem ^e  

^a Museo di Storia Naturale Sezione di Zoologia La Specola   (Italy)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c HALIC UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SWIMMING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CRAB; CYPRIS (LARVA); FEMALE; HETEROSACCUS DOLLFUSI; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOCEPHALAN; SEASHORE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER TEMPERATURE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDIAN OCEAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; TURKEY;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

CHARYBDIS LONGICOLLIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HETEROSACCUS DOLLFUSI; PORTUNIDAE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; FEMALE; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PREVALENCE; TURKEY;

EID: 76749157120     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2026.1     Document Type: Article

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