Host quality and spatial patterning in infections of the eastern Mudsnail (Ilyanassa obsoleta) by two trematodes (Himasthla quissetensis and Zoogonus rubellus)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-255

  Rossiter, Wayne ^a   Sukhdeo, Michael V K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FITNESS; FLATWORM; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT TYPE; HOST QUALITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARSH; PARASITIC DISEASE; SNAIL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HABITAT; HIMASTHLA QUISSETENSIS; HOST; NONHUMAN; SNAIL; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; ZOOGONUS RUBELLUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EATING; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEW JERSEY; SEASONS; SNAILS; TREMATODA; WETLANDS;

GASTROPODA; HIMASTHLA QUISSETENSIS; ILYANASSA OBSOLETA; TREMATODA; ZOOGONUS RUBELLUS;

EID: 84860307511     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2802.1     Document Type: Article

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