Monogeneans: Monogenea
Molecular phylogeny of Neotropical monogeneans (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) from catfishes (Siluriformes)
... Similarly to previous phylogenetic studies [16-19], our results revealed that the present classification of the Ancyrocephalinae is artificial and does not reflect the phylogenetic relationships of this extraordinarily ...
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Underexplored diversity of gill monogeneans in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika: eight new species of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from the northern basin of the lake, with remarks on the vagina and the heel of the male copulatory organ
... of monogeneans in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika through the new species descrip- tions and the checklist of Tanganyikan and non- Tanganyikan Cichlidogyrus ...
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Attachment ability of a clamp bearing fish parasite, Diplozoon paradoxum (Monogenea), on gills of the common bream, Abramis brama
... fused monogeneans provides a perfect site to attach the force sensor for pull-off force ...the monogeneans are usually attached at the inner hemibranchs of the ...to monogeneans during the ...
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Reproductive strategies of the insidious fish ectoparasite, Neobenedenia sp. (Capsalidae: Monogenea)
... Fish monogeneans are lethal parasites in aquaculture. We provide the first experimental evidence that a notorious fish monogenean, Neobenedenia sp., can produce viable eggs in isolation for three consecutive ...
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The mitochondrial genome of Paragyrodactylus variegatus (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea): differences in major non coding region and gene order compared to Gyrodactylus
... The mitochondrial genome of P. variegatus is 222 bp shorter than that of G. derjavinoides, but well within the length range of parasitic flatworms [22,23]. Differing number and length of the major non-coding region is ...
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Mitochondrial genomes of two diplectanids (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) expose paraphyly of the order Dactylogyridea and extensive tRNA gene rearrangements
... in monogeneans is evolving at a relatively rapid ...in monogeneans, as some taxo- nomic categories appear to be particularly prone to mitogenomic rearrangements (diplectanids, tetraonchids and ...in ...
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Hatchability and survival of oncomiracidia of Paradiplozoon ichthyoxanthon (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) exposed to aqueous aluminium
... of monogeneans, while the opposite has been found to occur in the presence of hy- drocarbons and eutrophication [16, ...toward monogeneans, a number of studies have documented the potential use of aluminium ...
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Behaviour, histopathology and immunobiology: interactions between the ectoparasite Neobenedenia (Monogenea: Capsalidae) and its host, Lates calcarifer (Perciformes: Latidae)
... capsalid monogeneans over the body surface of the host may also account for the observed surrounding damage (Whittington & Ernst 2002; Ogawa et ...which monogeneans remained anchored to a single ...
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Two new species of Acanthocotyle Monticelli, 1888 (Monogenea: Acanthocotylidae), parasites of two deep sea skates (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes) in the South East Pacific
... The analysis of the geographical distribution of mem- bers of Acanthocotyle suggests a close association with the temperate region (Fig. 7), although this conclusion should be considered with caution. To date, all known ...
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A phylogeny of Cichlidogyrus spp (Monogenea, Dactylogyridea) clarifies a host switch between fish families and reveals an adaptive component to attachment organ morphology of this parasite genus
... with monogeneans, a species-rich clade of mostly ectoparasitic ...gyrodactylid monogeneans has been described from cyprinodontiform hosts in both the Neotropics [21] and Africa ...
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Species of Characidotrema Paperna & Thurston, 1968 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from fishes of the Alestidae (Characiformes) in Africa: new species, host parasite associations and first insights into the phylogeny of the genus
... specific monogeneans, are usually considered to be good biological markers of their host diversity and evolution [42, ...of monogeneans parasitizing these fishes appears to be poorly ...
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Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of a fish parasitic flatworm Paratetraonchoides inermis (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea): tRNA gene arrangement reshuffling and implications for phylogeny
... After BLASTn analysis [26], the mitochondrial genomic sequence was assembled manually in a stepwise manner. The mt genome was aligned against the mt genomic se- quences of other published monogeneans using MAFFT ...
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Myxosporean hyperparasites of gill monogeneans are basal to the Multivalvulida
... Spore morphology, development and identification Myxospore morphology of M. incomptavermi is similar to that of the type species for the genus, Myxidium lie- berkuehni. However, spores of M. lieberkuehni are larger (20 × ...
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Evolution of host specificity in monogeneans parasitizing African cichlid fish
... in monogeneans parasitizing Mediterranean fishes which is in line with the hypothesis of specialization on predictable resources when considering host body size as a measure of host ...
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Ultrastructural observation of the vitelline cells of diplozoon sp (from Arunachal Pradesh) (Monogenea, (Polyopisthocotylea)
... ( Monogenea, Microcotylidae) by Baptista –Farias et al(1998) has unique similarity in the result of the ultrastructural observation with the Ultrastructural observation of the vitelline cells of diplozoon sp ...
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Monogenean infestations of arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) and cat fish (Hypostomus plecostomus)
... Monogenea are flatworms or Platyhelminthes (Class ...most monogenea are on the skin, fins, gills, mouth cavity and nostrils of the infested fish, few species are adopted for endoparasitic life and can ...
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Are fish immune systems really affected by parasites? an immunoecological study of common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
... Our study showed that host immunity and physiology, as well as parasite infection, are highly dependent on seaso- nal variability (i.e. temporal variation) potentially related to the changes of water temperature (one of ...
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Tracking transparent monogenean parasites on fish from infection to maturity
... Random attachment of oncomiracidia, followed by migration of post-larvae to speci fi c microhabitats, has been previously observed in monogeneans. Post-larvae of the gill parasite Urocleidus adspectus (Mueller) ...
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Automated identification of Monogeneans using digital image processing and K nearest neighbour approaches
... train and test the system. K-nearest neighbour was used for detection of four species of monogeneans according to their diagnostic parts. The accuracy of automated identifi- cation in this study is 90%. Features ...
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Parasite structure of the Ocean Whitefish Caulolatilus princeps from Baja California, México (East Pacific)
... removed. Monogeneans and digeneans were Wxed in AFA (acetic acid-formaldehyde-alcohol) solution for 2–24 h, then preserved in ethylic alcohol (70%), and stained with Gomori’s trichromic stain (Vidal-Martínez et ...
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