Skin-digging tanaids: The unusual parasitic behaviour of Exspina typica in Antarctic waters and worldwide deep basins

Antarctic Science

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-348

  Alvaro, Maria Chiara ^a   Błazewicz Paszkowycz, Magdalena ^b   Davey, Niki ^c   Schiaparelli, Stefano ^d  

^a Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide (MNA)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Holothuroidea; parasitism; Ross Sea; Tanaidacea

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP SEA; DETRITIVORY; ECHINODERM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITISM;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EXSPINA TYPICA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; TANAIDACEA; TANAIDAE;

EID: 80255137256     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102011000186     Document Type: Article

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