| metazoan parasites of sika deer from east hokkaido, japan and ecological analyses of their abomasal nematodes. | metazoan parasites of 50 sika deer (cervus nippon yezoensis) collected in march 1991 in the ashoro district in east hokkaido, japan, were evaluated. ten species of helminths and three species of ectoparasites were obtained. estimated abundance of males of two species of abomasal nematodes, spiculopteragia houdemeri and rinadia andreevae, were positively correlated with each other, and were overdispersed; s. houdemeri followed poisson's and r. andreevae followed a negative binomial distribution. ... | 1997 | 9131559 |