[Experimental infestation of Cochlicella ventricosa with L1 larvae of protostrongylids (author's transl)]

Ann Parasitol Hum Comp. 1979 Jan-Feb;54(1):57-64.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Young land-snails (Cochlicella ventricosa) were infested with a plurigeneric mixture of first-stage larvae of Protostrogylids. Cochlicella ventricosa is good host for Cystocaulus and Neostrongylus. Only one larva is able to ensure its complete evolution at a first infestation. A second larva follows the same process, at a second infestation. Such a regulation of the infestation recalls the limitation phenomenon. Hypothesis concerning this regulation process are discussed.20

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Ecology
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Larva / growth & development
  • Nematoda / growth & development*
  • Sheep
  • Snails / parasitology*