Ecology of the brain trematode euhaplorchis californiensis and its host, the California killifish (fundulus parvipinnis)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 482-490

  Shaw, J C ^a   Hechinger, R F ^a   Lafferty, K D ^a   Kuris, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION; BIOMASS; BODY CONDITION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECOLOGY; ESTUARY; EUHAPLORCHIS CALIFORNIENSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FUNDULIDAE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; SNAILS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINODONTOIDEI; EUHAPLORCHIS CALIFORNIENSIS; FUNDULUS PARVIPINNIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 77953836216     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2188.1     Document Type: Article

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