Is sex-biased ectoparasitism related to sexual size dimorphism in small mammals of Central Europe?

abstract：:Nematodes are amongst the most successful and abundant organisms on the planet with approximately 30 000 species described, although the actual number of species is estimated to be one million or more. Despite sharing a relatively simple and invariant body plan, there is considerable diversity within the phylum. Nemat...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gillan V,Devaney E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human strongyloidiasis is a serious disease mostly attributable to Strongyloides stercoralis and to a lesser extent Strongyloides fuelleborni, a parasite mainly of non-human primates. The role of animals as reservoirs of human-infecting Strongyloides is ill-defined, and whether dogs are a source of human infection is ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Barratt JLN,Sapp SGH

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the parasitic swimbladder nematode, Anguillicola crassus, on the physiological status of wild European eels (Anguilla anguilla) was investigated during an 18 month survey (February 1995 until September 1996), and compared with that of wild uninfected eels collected over the same time-period. Despite the ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kelly CE,Kennedy CR,Brown JA

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neospora caninum is the causative agent of bovine neosporosis. A N. caninum cytoplasmic dynein LC8 light chain (NcDYNLL) protein was characterized in this study. Cytoplasmic dyneins, including DYNLLs, belong to the microtubule minus-end-directed motor proteins and are involved in many cellular processes. Previous micr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cao L,Fetterer R,Qu G,Zhang X,Tuo W

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of epimastigotes and production of infective metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma congolense were examined in a culture system which enabled manipulation of the population density of insect forms. Scanning electron microscopy of cultures revealed the attachment sites of epimastigotes in detail, showing them...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Prain CJ,Ross CA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model for the study of granuloma formation in the liver is described. Rats received an injection of 20,000 Schistosoma mansoni eggs in the portal vein and granuloma formation was evaluated at 3, 5 and 7 weeks post-injection. Liver collagen was estimated at the same time and serum procollagen III peptide, a marke...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Van Gool J,Van Tiel D,Doenhoff MJ,Van Vugt H

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BALB/c mice were characterized as more resistant to infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) than C57BL/6 mice based on lower establishment and survival during a primary infection and stronger protection induced by an immunizing regime. It was hypothesized, therefore, that C57BL/6 mice would be more heavily...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Scott ME

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificially transformed schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni develop a consistent but small protection against the lethal effects of antibody plus complement when cultured for 24 h in a chemically defined medium. In contrast, they become rapidly resistant to antibody plus complement, when cultured in the presence of ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tavares CA,Soares RC,Coelho PM,Gazzinelli G

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of 4 arylimidamides (DB811, DB786, DB750 and DB766) against the proliferative tachyzoite stage of the apicomplexan parasite Besnoitia besnoiti were investigated. These four compounds had been shown earlier to exhibit in vitro activities in the nanomolar range against the related apicomplexans Neos...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Cortes HC,Muller N,Boykin D,Stephens CE,Hemphill A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that the mechanisms of neuromyopathic damage induced by Trypanosoma cruzi are mediated by T cells and are parasite-strain dependent. In the present study our aim was to determine whether the humoral response against muscle and nervous system is also parasite-strain dependent. Of the sera fr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Tekiel VS,Mirkin GA,Gonzalez Cappa SM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:American trypanosamiasis occurs in nature as a sylvatic cycle, where Trypanosoma cruzi interacts with wild triatomines and mammalian reservoirs, such as marsupials, rodents, armadillos and other animals. Due to difficulties in trying to isolate T. cruzi stocks from the sylvatic cycle, very few studies have been perfor...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Fernandes O,Mangia RH,Lisboa CV,Pinho AP,Morel CM,Zingales B,Campbell DA,Jansen AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against Neospora caninum tachyzoites were produced to identify the cross-reactive antigens between N. caninum and Toxoplasma gondii. Ten mAbs recognizing cross-reactive antigens of both parasites were obtained and tentatively classified into 6 different groups based on their reactiv...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Liao M,Xuan X,Huang X,Shirafuji H,Fukumoto S,Hirata H,Suzuki H,Fujisaki K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing support for the presence of viruses and virus-like particles inside protozoan cells. This study describes viral-like RNA molecules that have been detected in two species of Eimeria that infect the chicken. The RNA molecule identified in E. maxima has been characterized: subcellular fractionation st...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Ellis J,Revets H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites often induce behavioural changes in their host. However, it is not necessarily easy to determine whether these changes are representative of an adaptation of the parasite (parasite manipulation), an adaptive response of the host or a side-effect of infection. In a solitary parasitoid of Drosophila larvae (Le...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Varaldi J,Petit S,Boulétreau M,Fleury F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex ratio theory posits that the adaptive proportion of male to female gametocytes of a malaria parasite within the vertebrate host depends on the degree of inbreeding within the vector. Gametocyte sex ratio could be phenotypically flexible, being altered based on the infection's clonal diversity, and thus likely inbr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Osgood SM,Schall JJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete sequence of the 18S small subunit (SSU) ribosomal DNA of Hammondia hammondi and Sarcocystis mucosa was obtained and compared to SSU rDNA sequences of Neospora caninum, Toxoplasma gondii, Besnoitia besnoiti, 2 species of Frenkelia, 3 species of Isospora, and 13 species of Sarcocystis. Analyses showed that ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Jenkins MC,Ellis JT,Liddell S,Ryce C,Munday BL,Morrison DA,Dubey JP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asparaginyl proteinases (or legumains) are a recently identified, novel class of cysteine proteinase which specifically hydrolyse peptide bonds after asparagine residues. Legumains have been implicated in the activation of cysteine proteases, particularly cathepsin B-like proteinases which are thought to help degrade ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Oliver EM,Skuce PJ,McNair CM,Knox DP

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A time-course study was conducted to resolve discrepancies in the literature and better define aspects of the Eimeria maxima life cycle such, as sites of development and both morphology and number of asexual stages. Broiler chickens were inoculated orally with five million E. maxima oocysts (APU1), and were necropsied...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Dubey JP,Jenkins MC

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasmosis is largely present in rural areas but its spatial distribution in this environment remains poorly known. In particular, it is unclear if areas of high density of cats, the only hosts excreting Toxoplasma gondii, constitute foci of high prevalence. To improve our understanding of the spatial distribution ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Gotteland C,Chaval Y,Villena I,Galan M,Geers R,Aubert D,Poulle ML,Charbonnel N,Gilot-Fromont E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve populations of bats were examined to determine the extent of interspecific associations in determining the species richness of intestinal helminth infracommunities. The pool of helminth species which was available to individual bats ranged from 2 to 21. The 'summed binomial' distribution was determined to under...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Lotz JM,Font WF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4-aminoquinolines chloroquine (CQ) and amodiaquine (AM) were used to treat Gambian children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in a randomized drug trial. Blood samples were taken immediately before treatment (day 0), and at day 7 and day 28 after treatment. Samples from those parasitologically positive at day ...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duraisingh MT,Drakeley CJ,Muller O,Bailey R,Snounou G,Targett GA,Greenwood BM,Warhurst DC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A guinea-pig immunoglobulin-G linked agarose column was used to detect the immunoglobulin-G binding proteins (IGBP) in the ixodid ticks, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Amblyomma variegatum and Ixodes hexagonus. IGBPs were found in salivary gland extract (SGE) of the unfed ticks of all 3 species. The sizes of the IGBPs,...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Wang H,Nuttall PA

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is a health problem in Brazil and the role of rodents in maintaining the schistosome life-cycle requires further clarification. The influence of Schistosoma mansoni on a population of Nectomys squamipes was studied by capture-recapture (1st phase, from June 1991 to November 1995) and removal (2nd phase...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： D'Andrea PS,Maroja LS,Gentile R,Cerqueira R,Maldonado Júnior A,Rey L

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex life-cycles of parasitic animals are a product of exploiting the process of development to generate organisms with different biological potentials within a species. Successive stages of the parasite adapt to functions such as host invasion and transmission, and to the colonization of a variety of niches, o...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bianco AE,Maizels RM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora traps and invades all the free-living juvenile stages of the trichostrongyle nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis. The processes of capture and invasion of the 1st-stage juveniles are described using differential interference contrast optics and 3-D reconstructio...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Murray DS,Wharton DA

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitic roundworms Strongyloides stercoralis (in man) and Strongyloides ratti (in rats) employ environmentally controlled XX/XO sex determination with a pair of X chromosomes and two pairs of autosomes. Strongyloides papillosus (in sheep) has only two pairs of chromosomes, one of which combines the genetic mater...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kulkarni A,Dyka A,Nemetschke L,Grant WN,Streit A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of Acanthocheilonema viteae to metabolize fructose was investigated in vitro. In common with other filarial species A. viteae oxidized fructose to lactate but its rate of consumption was only 40% of the glucose-containing control value. Fructose was not incorporated into glycogen. Release of 14CO2 from [U...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Hayes DJ,Carter NS

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:n order to investigate the dynamics of Septin4 (Sept4) expression and its function in the formation of fibrotic livers in mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum, we constructed the mouse model of S. japonicum egg-induced liver fibrosis for 24 weeks. Immunohistochemical staining, qRT-PCR and Western blot were used to...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Duan YN,Qian HY,Qin YW,Zhu DD,He XX,Zhou Q,Yang YN,Bao J,Feng JR,Sun W,Chen JL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serial passage of 3 strains of Eimeria from the chicken in embryonating turkey embryos is reported here. All 3 strains increased their reproduction in turkey embryos; reproduction being equal to or better than the same lines maintained in chicken embryos. Pathogenicity and immunogenicity trials conducted in chicke...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Kogut MH,Gore TC,Long PL

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early in the history of schistosomiasis research, children under 5 years of age were known to be infected. Although this problem was recognized over 100 years ago, insufficient action has been taken to address this issue. Under current policy, such infected children only receive their first antiparasitic treatment (pr...

journal_title：Parasitology

authors： Bustinduy AL,Wright S,Joekes EC,Kabatereine NB,Reinhard-Rupp J,King CH,Stothard JR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00