Female mosquitoes use abiotic and biotic factors, such as the presence of heavy metals or parasites, to determine the acceptability of oviposition sites. Some biotic factors can originate from mosquito larvae. When mosquito larvae are starved or infected with trematode metacercaria, they render associated water unacceptable to ovipositioning females. Internal symbiotes are common in wild mosqui...

Liver fluke caused by Opisthorchis viverrini, is a serious problem in Thailand particularly in the northeast and north region (Kaewpitoon et al., 2008b; Sitthithaworn et al., 2012; Sripa et al., 2012; Wongsaroj et al., 2014; Kaewpitoon et al., 2015). Recently, the current status of liver fluke infection in Thailand was reported, a nationwide survey prevalent was 5.1%. The highest of prevalent w...

The study of the functional morphology reproductive system trematodes, as well its individual parts, provides an opportunity to solve important problem that plays a huge role in theoretical and practical terms directed regulation fecundity endoparasites. article is devoted vitelline glands Mehlis process formation resistant egg shells on example Parastrigea robusta trematode. mechanisms are rev...

Citation: Arnal A, Droit A, Elguero E, Ducasse H, Sánchez MI, Lefevre T, Misse D, Bédèrina M, Vittecoq M, Daoust S and Thomas F (2015) Activity level and aggregation behavior in the crustacean gammarid Gammarus insensibilis parasitized by the manipulative trematode Microphallus papillorobustus. Front. Ecol. Evol. 3:109. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00109 Activity level and aggregation behavior in the...

Ten polymorphic loci were isolated and characterised from the intertidal New Zealand trematode Curtuteria australis. This common parasite manipulates the burrowing behaviour of its abundant bivalve host Austrovenus stutchburyi, with cascading impacts on the biodiversity of intertidal communities. Observed heterozygosities of the 10 loci ranged from 0.500 to 0.905, and three to 14 alleles were d...

A study on trematode obtained from freshwater snails in 30 grow-out giant gourami ponds supplied by well water was conducted Chau Thanh district, Tien Giang province, Vietnam. The were sampled the flooding season (October 2020), intermediary (January 2021) and non-flooding (April 2021). Eight snail species belonging to 8 genera, 4 families found including Sermyla tornatella (48.6%), Sinotaia li...

Seven polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized from the coastal New Zealand trematode Maritrema novaezealandensis , an important driving force in the population dynamics of its snail and crustacean intermediate hosts. Observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.33 to 0.82, and three to 17 alleles were detected in 22 trematode sporocysts. These loci will be integral for identi...

Human liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, a food-borne trematode is a significant public health problem in Southeast Asia, particularly in Thailand. Despite a long history of control programmes in Thailand and a nationwide reduction, O. viverrini infection prevalence remains high in the northeastern provinces. Therefore, a new strategy for controlling the liver fluke infection using the EcoHea...