Upstream-downstream gradient in infection levels by fish parasites: A common river pattern?

Parasitology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 266-274

  Blasco Costa, Isabel ^a,b   Koehler, Anson V ^c   Martin, Alice ^a   Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apatemon sp; Coitocaecum parvum; disease; freshwater; infection patterns; River Continuum Concept; Stegodexamene anguillae; Telogaster opisthorchis; trematode abundance; unidirectional river flow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GOBIOMORPHUS BREVICEPS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; NEW ZEALAND; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84873376457     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012001527     Document Type: Article

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