A high prevalence (86.7%) of various species of nematodes was observed in the stomach of great cormorants living in Lake Biwa, Japan. There were varying numbers of adults belonging to two common genera, Eustrongylides Jagerskiold 1909 (Nematoda: Dioctophymatidae) and Contracaecum Railliet & Henry 1912 (Nematoda: Anisakidae). The first included common adenophorean nematodes comprising a single s...

Many floodplains contain high concentrations of sediment associated contaminants that might be subjected to large changes in terms of mobility, transformation and bioavailability. Therefore, this study describes 1) changes in the redox conditions and the mobility of metals in artificially uncovered polluted floodplain sediments, 2) metal uptake by organisms and 3) colonization, succession and f...

Thelohanellus nikolskii, Achmerov, 1955 is a well-known myxozoan parasite of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Infection regularly manifests in numerous macroscopic cysts on fins two to three month-old pond-cultured fingerlings July and August. However, infection also scales year-old ponds natural waters May June. Based myxospore morphology tissue specificity, at both sites seems be caused ...

Ectodermal segmentation in the oligochaete annelid Tubifex is a process of separation of 50-microm-wide blocks of cells from the initially continuous ectodermal germ band (GB), a cell sheet consisting of four bandlets of blast cells derived from ectoteloblasts (N, O, P and Q). In this study, using intracellular lineage tracers, we characterized the morphogenetic processes that give rise to form...

Mean 96-hr LCs0 values and standard deviations for the oligochaetes S. heringianus and L. hoffmeisteri exposed to endrin-contaminated sediment were 2,588 _ 1,974 txg/g dry weight sediment for 4 assays and 2,725 + 955 Cg/g for 2 assays, respectively. Mixed species testing data suggested that the toxicity to L. hoffrneisteri was reduced in the presence of S. heringianus, yet further testing is re...