The effect of salinity on experimental infections of a hematodinium sp. in blue crabs, callinectes sapidus

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 536-542

  Coffey, Anna H ^a   Li, Caiwen ^a   Shields, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INOCULATION; SALINITY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALGAL INFECTION; ARTICLE; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DINOFLAGELLATE; DINOSPORE; HEMATODINIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CELL COUNT; DINOFLAGELLIDA; HEMOCYTES; HEMOLYMPH; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SALINITY; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DINOPHYCEAE; HEMATODINIUM; HEMATODINIUM SP.;

EID: 84863486627     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2971.1     Document Type: Article

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