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Filtering by: Creator Lofton, Shelby Date issued sim 2016-08-09 Degree Field Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences

Lack of Seasonality for Cercariae of Nanophyetus salmincola in the Snail Juga silicula

Creator:

Lofton, Shelby

Abstract:

Nanophyetus salmincola is a well-studied parasite of their definitive mammal hosts. However, the conditions that signal the time for shedding of N. salmincola cercariae from their first host, the juga snail (Juga silicula), is not fully understood. A digenetic trematode indigenous to the American Pacific Northwest, N. salmincola can be...

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Honors College Thesis