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BEHAVIOR

AGGREGATION OF HELMINTHS: THE ROLE OF FEEDING BEHAVIOR OF FISH HOSTS

Rune Knudsen; Mark A. Curtis; Roar Kristoffersen

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THE INVOLVEMENT OF CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE IN THE CONTROL OF SCHISTOSOME MIRACIDIUM CILIA

Hiroshi Matsuyama; Hiroshi Takahashi; Kanji Watanabe; Yasunori Fujimaki; Yoshiki Aoki

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BIOCHEMISTRY-PHYSIOLOGY

OPIATE ALKALOIDS AND NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION IN THE NEMATODE ASCARIS SUUM

Wei Zhu; Stephen C. Pryor; Jennifer Putnam; Patrick Cadet; George B. Stefano

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DEVELOPMENT

REINVESTIGATION OF SPERMIOGENESIS IN THE PROTEOCEPHALIDEAN CESTODE PROTEOCEPHALUS LONGICOLLIS (ZEDER, 1800)

Magdaléna Brun̆anská; Tomás̆ Scholz; Jana Nebesár̆ová

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SPERMIOGENESIS AND ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE SPERMATOZOON OF THE LIVER FLUKE FASCIOLA GIGANTICA COBBOLD, 1856 (DIGENEA: FASCIOLIDAE), A PARASITE OF CATTLE IN SENEGAL

Papa Ibnou Ndiaye; Jordi Miquel; Cheikh Tidiane Bâ; Bernard Marchand

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ECOLOGY-EPIDEMIOLOGY

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND SEASONAL DYNAMICS OF HELMINTH PARASITES IN LEPOMIS CYANELLUS AND L. MACROCHIRUS FROM CHARLIE'S POND, NORTH CAROLINA: HOST SIZE AND SPECIES AS DETERMINANTS OF COMMU...

K. J. Fellis; G. W. Esch

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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTRIBUTION OF DIGENETIC TREMATODE INFECTIONS IN A MUDSNAIL (HYDROBIA VENTROSA) POPULATION INHABITING SALT MARSH PONDS IN ICELAND

Karl Skirnisson; Kirill V. Galaktionov; Eugeny V. Kozminsky

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ECTOPARASITOLOGY

GEOGRAPHICAL STRUCTURING OF FEATHER MITE ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN BRUSH-TURKEY (AVES: MEGAPODIIDAE)

Heather C. Proctor; Darryl N. Jones

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FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY

MOLECULAR AND BIOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII ISOLATES FROM WILDLIFE IN THE UNITED STATES

J. P. Dubey; D. H. Graham; R. W. De Young; E. Dahl; M. L. Eberhard; E. K. Nace; K. Won; H. Bishop; G. Punkosdy; C. Sreekumar; M. C B. Vianna; S. K. Shen; O. C H. Kwok; J. A. Sumners; S. Demarais; J. G. Humphreys; T. Lehmann

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BOOK REVIEW

Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution

K. Joel Fellis

Extract

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GENETICS-EVOLUTION

CLONING AND SEQUENCING OF PUTATIVE CALRETICULIN COMPLEMENTARY DNAs FROM FOUR HARD TICK SPECIES

Guang Xu; Quentin Q. Fang; James E. Keirans; Lance A. Durden

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IMMUNOLOGY

INFRAPOPULATION DYNAMICS OF A WILD STRAIN OF TAENIA CRASSICEPS (WFU) (CESTODA: TAENIIDAE) IN BALB/cJ MICE

Mary E. Everhart; Raymond E. Kuhn; Derek A. Zelmer

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ANTIEGRESSIN ACTS LATE IN THE INTRACELLULAR GROWTH CYCLE OF TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI TO INHIBIT PARASITE EGRESS

Deborah Moore-Lai; Edwin C. Rowland

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INVERTEBRATE-PARASITE RELATIONSHIPS

MITOTIC RESPONSES TO EXTRACTS OF MIRACIDIA AND CERCARIAE OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI IN THE AMEBOCYTE-PRODUCING ORGAN OF THE SNAIL INTERMEDIATE HOST BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA

John T. Sullivan; Stella S. Pikios; Aileen Q. Alonzo

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LIFE CYCLES-SURVEY

ACANTHOPARYPHIUM TYOSENENSE (DIGENEA: ECHINOSTOMATIDAE): EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION OF THE CERCARIA AND ITS COMPLETE LIFE HISTORY IN KOREA

Young-Gill Kim; Ji-Eun Yu; Ee-Yung Chung; Pyung-Rim Chung

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POSTCYCLIC TRANSMISSION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PAULISENTIS MISSOURIENSIS (ACANTHOCEPHALA) IN THE DEFINITIVE HOST SEMOTILUS ATROMACULATUS

Aaron L. McCormick; Brent B. Nickol

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LIFE-HISTORY STUDIES ON TWO MOLECULAR STRAINS OF MESOCESTOIDES (CESTODA: MESOCESTOIDIDAE): IDENTIFICATION OF SYLVATIC HOSTS AND INFECTIVITY OF IMMATURE LIFE STAGES

Kerry A. Padgett; Walter M. Boyce

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FEMALE BIASED PARASITISM AND THE IMPORTANCE OF HOST GENERATION OVERLAP IN A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED PARASITE OF BEETLES

Owen D. Seeman; Helen F. Nahrung

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MOLECULAR-CELL BIOLOGY

VARIATION OF THE INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1 SEQUENCE WITHIN INDIVIDUAL STRAINS AND AMONG DIFFERENT STRAINS OF NEOSPORA CANINUM

Luis F. P. Gondim; Paul Laski; Liying Gao; Milton M. McAllister

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ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GANGLIOSIDES FROM TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI

Akiko Uemura; Shinobu Watarai; Yasunori Kushi; Takeshi Kasama; Yoshihiro Ohnishi; Hiroshi Kodama

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SYSTEMATICS-PHYLOGENETICS

TWO NEW SPECIES OF CARDICOLA (DIGENEA: SANGUINICOLIDAE) IN DRUMS (SCIAENIDAE) FROM MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA

Stephen A. Bullard; Robin M. Overstreet

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PARAPHARYNGODON DUNIAE N. SP. (NEMATODA: PHARYNGODONIDAE) IN PHRYNOHYAS VENULOSA (ANURA: HYLIDAE) FROM THE AREA DE CONSERVACIÓN GUANACASTE, GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA

Charles R. Bursey; Daniel R. Brooks

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COSMOCERCA VRCIBRADICI N. SP. (ASCARIDIDA: COSMOCERCIDAE), OSWALDOCRUZIA VITTI N. SP. (STRONGYLIDA: MOLINEOIDAE), AND OTHER HELMINTHS FROM PRIONODACTYLUS EIGENMANNI AND PRIONODACTYLUS OSH...

Charles R. Bursey; Stephen R. Goldberg

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THE FIRST COMPLETE MONOGENEAN RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE OPERON: SEQUENCE AND SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF THE GYRODACTYLUS SALARIS MALMBERG, 1957, LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE

I. Matejusová; C. O. Cunningham

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THERAPEUTICS-DIAGNOSTICS

PLASMODIUM YOELII: IDENTIFICATION AND PARTIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN MDR1 GENE IN AN ARTEMISININ-RESISTANT LINE

Iván Ferrer-Rodríguez; José Pérez-Rosado; Gary W. Gervais; Wallace Peters; Brian L. Robinson; Adelfa E. Serrano

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USE OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES FOR FLOW CYTOMETRIC DETECTION OF INTRACELLULAR TOXOPLASMA GONDII IN MURINE SPLENIC LYMPHOCYTES

Eun-Hee Shin; Sung-Bum Kim; Ho-Woo Nam; Eun-Taek Han; Jae-Hwan Park; Hye-Jin Ahn; Jong-Yil Chai

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RESEARCH NOTES

Molecular Characterization of a Cryptosporidium Isolate From a Banded Mongoose Mungos mungo

Niichiro Abe; Kazutoshi Takami; Isao Kimata; Motohiro Iseki

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Paleoparasitological Analysis of Coprolites from K2, an Iron Age Archaeological Site in South Africa: The First Finding of Dicrocoelium Sp. Eggs

K. Dittmar; M. Steyn

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Parasitic Helminths of Black Bear Cubs (Ursus americanus) From Florida

Garry W. Foster; Mark W. Cunningham; John M. Kinsella; Donald J. Forrester

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Muscular Anatomy and Aspects of the Structure of the Antennae of Anthosoma crassum (Dichelesthiidae: Siphonostomatoidae: Copepoda)

Abigail L. Ingram

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Pathogenicity of the Gill Artery Worm Philometra obturans (Nematoda) in Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in Southwest Finland

S. Kåll; H-P. Fagerholm; J. Sarvala

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Variation of Circumsporozoite 26 and 29 Genotypes of Plasmodium falciparum Infecting Patients and Association with HLA-DQA Allotypes in Western Thailand

Thomas M. Kollars, Jr.; Rungnapha Phasuk; Jetsumon Sattabongkot

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Occurrence of Ergasilus megaceros , in the Sea Lamprey and Other Fishes From North America

Patrick M. Muzzall; Patrick L. Hudson

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Molecular Characterization of the First Internal Transcribed Spacer of Ribosomal DNA of the Most Common Species of Eyeworms (Thelazioidea: Thelazia)

Domenico Otranto; Donato Traversa

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Expanded Geographical Range, New Host Accounts, and Observations of the Nematode Gyrinicola batrachiensis (Oxyuroidea: Pharyngodonidae) in Tadpoles

Gregory S. Pryor; Ellis C. Greiner

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A New Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction Method Very Efficient in Detecting Plasmodium and Haemoproteus Infections From Avian Blood

J. Waldenström; S. Bensch; D. Hasselquist; Ö Östman

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Detrimental Effects of Haemoproteus Infections on the Survival of Biting Midge Culicoides impunctatus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Gediminas Valkiūnas; Tatjana A. Iezhova

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The Transmission of Haemoproteus belopolskyi (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) of Blackcap by Culicoides impunctatus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Gediminas Valkiūnas; Tatjana A. Iezhova

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Temporal Allozyme Divergence in Infrapopulations of the Hemiurid Fluke Lecithochirium fusiforme

R. Vilas; M. L. Sanmartín; E. Paniagua

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CRITICAL COMMENT

Erroneous Reports of the Neotropical Echinococcus oligarthrus as a Cause of Echinococcosis in India

A. D'Alessandro; R. L. Rausch

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