Natural infection of the calanoid crustacean Epischura baicalensis by procercoids of Proteocephalus sp. in Listvenichnyi Bay, Lake Baikal

• Published in: Journal of Helminthology
• Main Authors: Rusinek, O.T., Bakina, M.P., Nikolskii, A.V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1996
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; General Medicine; Parasitology; Bay Lake; Coregonus autumnalis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00015479; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022149X00015479

Abstract Natural infection of the plankton Epischura baicalensis Sars (Calanoida: Temoridae) by procercoids of the genus Proteocephalus in Lake Baikal is analysed in detail. Over one year Epischura was infected by procercoids of proteocephalids at a prevalence of 0.13% (in Listvenichnyi Bay, South B...