Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
1964
Abstract
In some preliminary work on the ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis (Rudolphi, 1801) on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Rausch and Schiller (1956. Parasitology, 46 (3 & 4): 395-419) noted that the percentage of arctic foxes, Alopex lagopus Linnaeus, harboring the adult cestodes seemed to vary annually in direct relation to the population density of tundra voles, Microtus oeconomus innuitus Merriam, the principal intermediate host. With the primary objective of examining this relationship in greater detail, an intensive, long-term ecologic investigation was begun on this island in 1955. Some of the results in the first 7 years are reported here.
Comments
Abstract published in Proceedings of the First International Congress of Parasitology (September 21-26, 1964, Rome, Italy), volume 2: 765-766. From Division D: Helminthiasis of Man and Domestic Animals; D4: Hydatidosis.