New data on Microphallus breviatus Deblock & Maillard, 1975 (Microphallidae: Digenea) with emphasis on the evolution of dixenous life cycles of microphallids - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 2007 Apr;100(5):963-71.

doi: 10.1007/s00436-006-0359-9. Epub 2006 Nov 21.

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Comparative Study

New data on Microphallus breviatus Deblock & Maillard, 1975 (Microphallidae: Digenea) with emphasis on the evolution of dixenous life cycles of microphallids

Kirill V Galaktionov et al. Parasitol Res. 2007 Apr.

Abstract

Infection by intramolluscan stages of Microphallus breviatus Deblock & Maillard, 1975 are common in Hydrobia ventrosa mudsnails in Iceland. Cercariae encyst inside the daughter sporocysts and develop there into metacercariae that become infective for the definitive hosts which are probably charadriiform waders. The adult stage was obtained in 1-day-old chicks that were experimentally infected with metacercariae from naturally infected hydrobians. New data are presented on the morphology and biology of the cercariae, and the adult is described for the first time. Comparisons are made between M. breviatus and closely related species. Differential diagnosis of M. breviatus is given. The morphological specializations in larvae of the hermaphroditic generation of the microphallids accompanying transition from trixenous life cycles to dixenous ones are considered, and the applicability of the term "life-cycle truncation" to microphallids with dixenous life cycles is discussed. Also, reasons for the broad distribution of dixenous life cycles within the family Microphallidae are reviewed.

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