Phenotypic plasticity in adult worms of Schistosoma mansoni (Trematoda:Schistosomatidae) evidenced by Brightfield and confocal laser scanning microscopies

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-136

  Neves, Renata Heisler ^a   Costa Silva, Michele ^a   Martinez, Elaine Machado ^a   Branquinho, Thiago B ^b   De Oliveira, Regina Maria Figueiredo ^a   Lenzi, Henrique Leonel ^b   Gomes, Delir Corrêa ^b   Machado Silva, José Roberto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adult worms; C3H He mice; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Nectomys squamipes; Phenotypic plasticity; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HOST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGUMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; CATOSTOMIDAE; NECTOMYS; NECTOMYS SQUAMIPES; RODENTIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 2542642248     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762004000200003     Document Type: Article

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