Parasites of polychaetes and their impact on host survival in Otago Harbour, New Zealand

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 449-455

  Peoples, R C ^a   Randhawa, H S ^a   Poulin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

gregarines; host fragmentation; metacercariae; soft sediment communities; trematodes

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; MUDFLAT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM; POLYCHAETE; PROTOZOAN; SURVIVAL;

NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

ABARENICOLA AFFINIS; APICOMPLEXA; GREGARINIA; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; OPECOELIDAE; POLYCHAETA; SPIROBRANCHUS; STREBLOSOMA; STRIGEIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 84859364035     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315411000774     Document Type: Review

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