Do Parasitic Trematode Cercariae Demonstrate a Preference for Susceptible Host Species?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Sears, Brittany F ^a   Schlunk, Andrea D ^a   Rohr, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAXYRUS TERRESTRIS; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYLA SQUIRELLA; LITHOBATES SPHENOCEPHALA; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BUFONIDAE; FLORIDA; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANA PIPIENS; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA; VIRULENCE;

BUFO; BUFO TERRESTRIS; HYLA SQUIRELLA; HYLIDAE; LITHOBATES; OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; SCIURIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 84871269601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051012     Document Type: Article

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