Publications
| establishment of the onset of host specificity in four phyllobothriid tapeworm species (cestoda: tetraphyllidea) using a molecular approach. | a parasitological survey in the bay of fundy, canada, resulted in the recovery of mature specimens from 5 species of phyllobothriid tapeworms (cestoda: tetraphyllidea) from 4 rajid skates: echeneibothrium canadensis and e. dubium abyssorum specimens from amblyraja radiata; e. vernetae and pseudanthobothrium n.sp. from leucoraja erinacea and l. ocellata; and p. hanseni from a. radiata and malacoraja senta. partial sequence data of a variable region (d2) from the large subunit ribosomal dna (lsu) ... | 2007 | 17462121 |
| determinants of host specificity and comments on attachment site specificity of tetraphyllidean cestodes infecting rajid skates from the northwest atlantic. | the objectives of this study were to (1) describe the host range for 6 tetraphyllidean species and quantify their host specificity using 5 specificity indices; (2) determine the role of morphological determinants in the host specificity of tetraphyllideans by comparing villar and bothridial measurements of species examined herein; and (3) determine the role of a physiological component in the host specificity of tetraphyllideans by exposing tetraphyllideans to blood sera from different fish spec ... | 2008 | 18564745 |