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Population distribution of Ochoterenella digiticauda (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) and Mesocoelium monas (Digenea: Brachycoeliidae) in naturally infected Bufo marinus (Amphibia: Bufonidae) from Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

M. S. Wong  and
D. A. P. Bundy
M. S. Wong
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica
D. A. P. Bundy
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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The worm burden distributions of a macrofilarial nematode, Ochoterenella digiticauda, and a gastroenteric digenean, Mesocoelium monas, were examined in a naturally infected population of Bufo marinus from Jamaica. Both parasite species had over-dispersed distributions which were well described by the negative binomial probability model (k = 0·35 for 0. digiticauda; and k = 0·59 for M. monas). The intensity distributions of the two parasites were uncorrelated: there was no significant association between the intensity (whether absolute or relative) of infection of either parasite in individual hosts. It is suggested that different, and parasite species-specific, factors of the host interaction are involved in generating the separate distributions of the two parasite species.

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Parasitology , Volume 90 , Issue 3 , June 1985 , pp. 457 - 461
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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