Critical linkage of imperiled species: Gulf Sturgeon as host for Purple Bankclimber mussels

Freshwater Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1223-1232

  Fritts, Andrea K ^a   Fritts Ii, Mark W ^a   Peterson, Douglas L ^a   Fox, Dewayne A ^b   Bringolf, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi; Elliptoideus sloatianus; glochidia; life history; parasite; Unionidae

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOST PREFERENCE; MUSSEL CULTURE; PERSISTENCE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES CONSERVATION;

UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM; ACIPENSER FULVESCENS; ACIPENSER OXYRHYNCHUS DESOTOI; ACIPENSER OXYRHYNCHUS OXYRHYNCHUS; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ANHINGIDAE; ELLIPTOIDEUS SLOATIANUS; GLOCHIDIA; PERCINA; PERCINA NIGROFASCIATA; PISCES; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 84871866116     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/12-081.1     Document Type: Article

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