It could be the plot of a B-horror movie: microscopic parasitic worms invade the brains of ants, and use mind control to make the "zombies ants" do their bidding. Sounds a little over the top, perhaps, but it is, in fact, the true-life story of the ingenious parasitic flatworm, Dic...
Life cyclePhilophthalmus attenuatusSpatial variationTrematodeMicrobial communities within metazoans are increasingly linked with development, health and behaviour, possibly functioning as integrated evolutionary units with the animal in which they live. This would require microbial communities to show some ...
The life cycle of anchor worms (lernaeids) has been described as direct with only one host, indirect with an intermediate host, or with a transfer host. The confusion lies in the apparent occurrence of all three cycles in the same species of anchor worm. The first copepodid usually attaches...
Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by a parasitic worm, is prevalent in hot, humid climates, and it has become more widespread as irrigation projects have enlarged the habitat of the freshwater snails that are the parasite’s hosts for part of its life cycle....
Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by a parasitic worm, is prevalent in hot, humid climates, and it has become more widespread as irrigation projects have enlarged the habitat of the freshwater snails that are the parasite's hosts for part of its life cyc
This is an unprecedented dataset of parasitic worm genomes that provides a new type of pan-species reference and a much needed stimulus to the study of parasitic worm biology. URLs SMALT, http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/smalt-0; RepeatModeler, http://www.repeatmasker.org/RepeatModeler....
题目: Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by a parasitic worm, is prevalent in hot, humid climates, and it has become more widespread as irrigation projects have enlargedthe habitat of the freshwater snails that are the parasite's hosts for part of its life cycle. ...
Combining two agents to block a parasitic worm's life cycle boosted survival from a potentially deadly tropical disease to 85% in animal models, far better than either treatment alone, according to a proof-of-concept study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center pharmacologists. ...
In the present study, we revisited the phylogenetic issue of the Monogenea within the parasitic Platyhelminthes based on the comparisons of the complete mitochondrial genome sequences of a polyopisthocotylid monogenean,Microcotyle sebastis Goto, 1894 with published data from other flatworm species....
Comparisons of inferred amino acid sequences and gene arrangement patterns with other published flatworm mtDNAs indicate Monogenea are sister group to a clade of Trematoda+Cestoda. Results confirm that vertebrates were the first host for stem group neodermatans and that the addition of a second, ...