| the guest playing host: colonization of the introduced mediterranean gecko, hemidactylus turcicus, by helminth parasites in southeastern louisiana. | parasite surveys of exotic hosts offer the opportunity to examine parasite colonization on different scales (i.e., host individual, host population, host species, and new geographic locality). ten helminths (macracanthorhynchus ingens, mesocestoides lineatus, oochoristica javaensis, haematoloechus varioplexus, mesocoelium monas, telorchis corti, cosmocercoides variabilis, oswaldocruzia leidyi, skrjabinoptera sp., and a larval acuariid nematode) were recovered from the exotic mediterranean gecko ... | 2001 | 11780810 |
| endoparasites in sphenomorphus jobiensis (sauria: scincidae) from papua new guinea with description of three new species. | one species of digenean, zeylanurotrema sphenomorphi n. sp., and 2 nematode species, meteterakis crombiei n. sp. and physalopteroides milnensis n. sp., from the intestine of sphenomorphus jobiensis, are described and illustrated. zeylanurotrema sphenomorphi n. sp. represents the second species, meteterakis crombiei n. sp. the 18th species, and physalopteroides milnensis n. sp. the 19th species assigned to each respective genus. in addition, 1 species of cestode, oochoristica javaensis; 7 nematod ... | 2005 | 16539021 |
| gastrointestinal helminths of four gekkonid lizards, gehyra mutilata, gehyra oceanica, hemidactylus frenatus and lepidodactylus lugubris from the mariana islands, micronesia. | the gastrointestinal tracts of gekkonid lizards from guam (gehyra mutilata [n = 4], gehyra oceanica [n = 11], hemidactylus frenatus [n = 43], and lepidodactylus lugubris [n = 38]) and rota (gehyra oceanica [n = 2], hemidactylus frenatus [n = 13], and lepidodactylus lugubris [n = 20] were examined for helminths. found were 2 species of cestodes, cylindrotaenia allisonae, oochoristica javaensis, 1 species of trematode, allopharynx macallisteri, and 5 species of nematodes, pharyngodon lepidodactylu ... | 1998 | 9920336 |
| role of parasite transmission in promoting inbreeding: i. infection intensities drive individual parasite selfing rates. | among parasitic organisms, inbreeding has been implicated as a potential driver of host-parasite co-evolution, drug-resistance evolution and parasite diversification. yet, fundamental topics about how parasite life histories impact inbreeding remain to be addressed. in particular, there are no direct selfing-rate estimates for hermaphroditic parasites in nature. our objectives were to elucidate the mating system of a parasitic flatworm in nature and to understand how aspects of parasite transmis ... | 2017 | 28626938 |
| testing mendelian inheritance from field-collected parasites: revealing duplicated loci enables correct inference of reproductive mode and mating system. | cryptic aspects of parasite population biology, e.g., mating systems, are increasingly being inferred from polymorphic and co-dominant genetic markers such as microsatellite loci. underlying the use of such co-dominant markers is the assumption of mendelian inheritance. the failure to meet this assumption can lead to artifactual statistics and erroneous population inferences. here, we illustrate the importance of testing the mendelian segregation and assortment of genetic markers and demonstrate ... | 2011 | 21839081 |