A non-invasive morphometric technique for estimating cestode plerocercoid burden in small freshwater fish
Authors:
I. Barber
Affiliation:
Fish Behaviour and Ecology Group, Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.
Abstract:
A non-invasive morphometric technique is presented which can be used to predict the infection status and the proportion of infected fish weight contributed by parasite tissue in three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus infected with plerocercoids of Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea)