Scientists' Warning on the Rapid Evolution of Parasites in the Anthropocene. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Human activities are changing the natural world at an accelerating pace, and as a consequence exerting novel and often strong selection pressures on living organisms. For species with traits conferring huge inherent evolutionary potential, like parasites, the outcome may be rapid adaptive responses spanning multiple phenotypic traits. The rise
Poulin R +30 more
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Ecological, Molecular, Histopathological and Public Health Implications of Zoonotic Metacercariae Clinostomum complanatum (Rudolphi, 1814) in the Endemic Anatolian Fish, Alburnus escherichii. [PDF]
• Clinostomum complanatum metacercariae, which has been reported in 23 fish species worldwide and 12 in Türkiye to date, continues to infect local and endemic fish species and will persist in the future. • Considering that Alburnus escherichii and other fish species in which this parasite has been recorded in Türkiye are used in traditional local ...
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A Sight for Sore Eyes: Diplostomum and Tylodelphys in the Eyes of Fish
Sight for Sore Eyes: Diplostomum and Tylodelphys in the ...
Thomas MCCLOUGHLIN
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Diplostomum is a taxonomically problematic genus of trematodes, with many members harmful at the metacercarial stage to fish in aquaculture. We found metacercariae in the eye vitreous humor of the rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus; the bleak, Alburnus ...
Sergey G. Sokolov +2 more
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Published as part of Shakarbaev, U. A., Akramova, F. D. & Azimov, D. A., 2020, The Taxonomic Survey Of The Cercarial Fauna (Platyhelminthes, Trematoda) In The Mollusks Of Uzbekistan, pp.
Shakarbaev, U. A. +2 more
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Reliable data on the diversity of the genus Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) parasitising freshwater fishes in South Africa, as well as in Africa, is almost non-existent.
Coret Hoogendoorn +2 more
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Fish digeneans from the Seven Islands ornithological reserve at OĹ›win Lake. Part II. The eyeflukes–Diplostomum spp. and Tylodelphys lavata(von Nordmann, 1832) [PDF]
Background. Aparasitological survey was carried out in a shallow, eutrophic Oświn Lake (north-eastern Poland), within the Seven Islands ornithological reserve.
K. Mierzejewska, T. Własow
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Published as part of Borgstrøm, Reidar, Mestrand, Øyvind Hatleli, Brittain, John E. & Lien, Leif, 2021, The helminth fauna of brown trout (Salmo trutta) from a sub-alpine lake revisited after 40 years with introduced European minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), pp.
Borgstrøm, Reidar +3 more
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Helminth parasites of twaite shad, Alosa fallax (Actinopterygii: Clupeiformes: Clupeidae), from the southern Baltic Sea [PDF]
Background. The twaite shad, Alosa fallax (Lacépède, 1803), is a migratory marine species which lives in North Atlantic and sporadically appears in the Baltic Sea.
J. Rokicki, L. Rolbiecki, A. Skóra
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Impairment of retinal function in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) by Diplostomum baeri metacercariae
Histologic studies of fish from Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan, USA show that Diplostomum spp. infect the lens of spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius) and common shiners (Luxilus cornutus).
John L. Ubels +6 more
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