| alternative life cycle strategies and colonization of young anurans by gorgoderina attenuata in nebraska. | studies on life cycles and epizootiology of north american frog bladder flukes indicate that adult frogs become infected predominantly by ingesting tadpoles or other frogs that serve as second intermediate hosts for gorgoderid metacercariae. other studies have indicated that newly metamorphosed frogs are rarely infected with these parasites because they are gape-limited predators that cannot feed on large intermediate hosts such as tadpoles and other frogs. we examined the role of potential inte ... | 2009 | 19071953 |