Spatial attachment-site preferences of macroectoparasites on Atlantic sturgeons Acipenser oxyrinchus in Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, Canada

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 377-383

  Munroe, Samantha E M ^a   Avery, Trevor S ^a   Shutler, Dave ^a   Dadswell, Michael J ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DEMERSAL FISH; ECTOPARASITE; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LESION; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOLOGY; TELEOST;

ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ARGULUS STIZOSTETHII; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CALIGUS ELONGATUS; CALLIOBDELLA VIVIDA; CANADA; COPEPOD; DICHELESTHIUM OBLONGUM; FIN (ORGAN); FISH; FISH DISEASE; GILL; HABITAT SELECTION; HELMINTH; METAZOON; NITZSCHIA STURIONIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; COPEPODA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GILLS; LEECHES; MALE; NOVA SCOTIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY; CANADA; MINAS BASIN; NOVA SCOTIA;

ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ACIPENSERIDAE; ARGULUS STIZOSTETHI; BRANCHIURA (CRUSTACEA); CALIGUS ELONGATUS; CALLIOBDELLA VIVIDA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; HIRUDINEA; MONOGENEA; NITZSCHIA;

EID: 79958275965     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2592.1     Document Type: Article

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