Temperature-dependent effect of the trematode eye flukes Diplostomum spp. on the growth of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.)

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 106-113

  Voutilainen, A ^a   Taskinen, J ^b   Huuskonen, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPLOSTOMUM; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 77955607955     PISSN: 01080288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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