| behavioral basis of second intermediate host specificity among four species of haematoloechus (digenea: haematoloechidae). | cercarial behavior patterns were examined in 4 species of frog lung flukes (haematoloechus spp.). cercariae of haematoloechus complexus, haematoloechus medioplexus, haematoloechus longiplexus, and haematoloechus varioplexus were exposed to 3 species of experimental arthropods and an inanimate control. the number of cercariae attached to an experimental host at 5 min postexposure was recorded. haematoloechus longiplexus and h. complexus cercariae attached to experimental hosts at higher rates tha ... | 1996 | 8627509 |
| helminth communities of green frogs rana clamitans latreille, from southwestern michigan. | a total of 239 green frogs rana clamitans, collected between june 3 and august 27, 1998 from 6 locations in southwestern michigan, was examined for helminths. of the 26 helminth taxa found, the larval cestode mesocestoides sp. had the highest mean intensity, followed by the larval trematode fibricola sp. of the helminths that mature in frogs, haematoloechus varioplexus had the highest prevalence and gorgodera amplicava had the highest mean intensity. frogs from 118th pond had the highest species ... | 2001 | 11695416 |
| 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 |
| evolutionary avenues for, and constraints on, the transmission of frog lung flukes (haematoloechus spp.) in dragonfly second intermediate hosts. | metacercariae survival patterns and their distribution in second intermediate odonate hosts were examined for 4 species of frog lung flukes. surveys of aquatic larvae and recently emerged teneral dragonflies and damselflies indicated that prevalence and mean abundance of haematoloechus spp. metacercariae were significantly lower in teneral dragonflies than larval dragonflies, while there was no significant difference in prevalence or mean abundance of haematoloechus spp. metacercariae among larv ... | 2007 | 17626352 |