One snail - Three Digenea species, different strategies in host-parasite interaction

Animal Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Zbikowska, Elzbieta ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diplostomum pseudospathaceum; Echinoparyphium aconiatum; Lymnaea stagnalis; Plagiorchis elegans; Snail; trematode

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MORPHOLOGY; OVERWINTERING; PATHOGENICITY; SNAIL; VIRULENCE;

DIGENEA (FLUKES); DIPLOSTOMUM PSEUDOSPATHACEUM; ECHINOPARYPHIUM ACONIATUM; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; PLAGIORCHIS ELEGANS; TREMATODA;

EID: 79953157289     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: 15707563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075511X554383     Document Type: Article

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