Suitability of different salmonid strains as hosts for the endangered freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera L.)

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 728-734

  Taeubert, Jens Eike ^a   Denic, Marco ^a   Gum, Bernhard ^a   Lange, Michael ^a   Geist, Juergen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freshwater ecosystems; Glochidia; Host parasite interaction; Hucho hucho; Salmo trutta

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; ENCYSTMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; RANGE EXPANSION; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

GLOCHIDIA; HUCHO HUCHO; MARGARITIFERA MARGARITIFERA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 77958559533     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1147     Document Type: Article

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