Ultrastructure of pigmented and unpigmented photoreceptors in cercariae of Trichobilharzia ocellata (Plathelminthes, Trematoda, Schistosomatidae): Evidence for the evolution of parasitism in Neodermata

Parasitology Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-116

  Sopott Ehlers, Beate ^a   Haas, Wilfried ^b   Ehlers, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; LENS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITISM; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA; SENSORY NERVE CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; TREMATODE; TRICHOBILHARZIA OCELLATA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EYE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LYMNAEA; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE;

NEODERMATA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA; TRICHOBILHARZIA; TRICHOBILHARZIA OCELLATA;

EID: 0141563750     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0933-3     Document Type: Article

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