You are what you eat: Parasite transfer in cannibalistic cane toads

Herpetologica

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-123

  Pizzatto, Lígia ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bufo marinus; Bufonidae; Disease; Host parasite; Intraspecific predation; Pathogen; Rhinella marina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANNIBALISM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NEMATODE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; PREDATION; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; BUFONIDAE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; RHABDIAS;

EID: 79957607523     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00051.1     Document Type: Article

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