Do heavy burdens of schistocephalus solidus in juvenile threespine stickleback result in disaster for the parasite?

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 775-778

  Heins, David C ^a   Baker, John A ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FINFISH; FLATWORM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; JUVENILE; MATURATION; MORTALITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FISH; FISH DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; JUVENILE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS; SURVIVAL; THREESPINE STICKLEBACK;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPARGANUM;

CESTODA; GASTEROSTEUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

EID: 80053998161     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2714.1     Document Type: Article

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