Taxonomic approaches to and interpretation of host specificity of trematodes of fishes: Lessons from the Great Barrier Reef

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1710-1722

  Miller, T L ^a   Bray, R A ^b   Cribb, T H ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digenea; fishes; Great Barrier Reef; host specificity; systematics; taxonomy; Trematoda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FISH; GENUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TREMATODE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREMATODIASIS;

DIGENEA (FLUKES); PISCES; TREMATODA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; QUEENSLAND; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84856245558     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011000576     Document Type: Article

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