with marine life-cycle clustered in a distinct clade basal to the Schistosomatidae. Members parasitic in marine testudines were identified as a distinct clade sister to all remaining schistosomes parasitic in birds and mammals. Schistosomes clustered into four distinct lineages: (i) an earlier divergi...
The intestinal nematode Strongyloides spp. exhibits an exceptional developmental plasticity in its life cycle characterized by parasitic and free-living generations. We investigated ESP from infective larvae, parasitic females, and free-living stages of the rat parasite Strongyloides ratti, which is ...
The basic life-cycle of the monogeneans and digeneans are different (Figure 1). Most ectoparasitic monogeneans release infective stages directly into the environment which then infect new hosts (Figure 1A). The digeneans are typically parasites of vertebrates, from which stages are released into th...
Using both similarity-based and de novo prediction methods, we determined that 30.6% of the O. viverrini genome encodes repetitive elements (Supplementary Data 1); this percentage is consistent with C. sinensis (25.6%)13, but lower than for Schistosoma spp. (40–47.5%)9–11. More than ...
There was a significant positive correlation between molecular (qPCR cycle of threshold) and metagenomic detection (total k-mers) of A. lumbricoides (p value < 0.001, Spearman’s ρ = − 0.74), N. americanus (p value < 0.001, Spearman’s ρ = − 0.63 and T. ...
(Supplementary Table 4). This lack of synteny likely attributes to differences in karyotype among these flukes. For example,O. viverrinihas 2n=12 chromosomes16, whereasC. sinensishas been reported to have 2n=14 (Russian isolate)17or 2n=58 chromosomes (Korean isolate)18;Schistosomaspp. of ...
Most of our knowledge on the processes structuring parasite communities in amphibians originate from temperate-zone taxa, whereas Afrotropical communities have been neglected so far. We found evidence that ecological fitting of the hosts and, probably, d