secretory and absorptive functions. The life cycle of a typical trematode begins with an egg. Some trematode eggs hatch directly in the environment (water)...

have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed to during their complex life cycle. Each stage in the...

class of flatworms known as flukes or trematodes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate...

The miracidium is the second stage in the life cycle of trematodes. When trematode eggs are laid and come into contact with fresh water, they hatch and...

medusa stage in their life cycle. The basic cycle is egg, planula larva, polyp, medusa, with the medusa being the sexual stage. The polyp stage is sometimes...

Digenea (Gr. Dis – double, Genos – race) is a class of trematodes in the Platyhelminthes phylum, consisting of parasitic flatworms (known as flukes) with...

known as the common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke, is a parasitic trematode (fluke or flatworm, a type of helminth) of the class Trematoda, phylum...

food that is contaminated with trematodes in the larval stages of their life cycle. In a host organism, eggs of trematodes can spread through faeces, and...

share a similar life cycle. They are parasites of snails and birds. This is a truncated life cycle compared with typical trematodes, because the snail...

starts the life cycle for the next generation. Heterobilharzia americana Prince 1929 (Price, Emmett W. 1929. A synopsis of the trematode family Schistosomidae...

Alaria is a genus of flatworms, or trematodes, in the family Diplostomidae. Alaria is a genus of small parasitic worm about 2–6 mm long and approximately...

Liver fluke is a collective name of a polyphyletic group of parasitic trematodes under the phylum Platyhelminthes. They are principally parasites of the...

amphibian larval stage. R. ondatrae is a digenetic trematode that occurs in lentic aquatic environments and has a complex life cycle that requires the...

reproduction of sporocysts or rediae in larval trematode infections of snails. As with the trematode asexual stages, a few nematogens can usually be found in...

is a genus of trematodes (flukes), which can infect both humans and other animals. These intestinal flukes have a three-host life cycle with snails or...

Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematodes (flukes) in the family Microphallidae. The Greek name means "tiny penis". They are parasitic on a variety...

intestinal trematode parasite prevalent on the Pacific Northwest coast. The species may be the most common trematode endemic to the United States. The life cycle...

definitive host, although its life cycle involves other hosts, as is common for trematodes. Earlier research proposed that its life cycle involved two other species...

(also known as metagenesis or heterogenesis) is the predominant type of life cycle in plants and algae. In plants both phases are multicellular: the haploid...

intestinal trematode genus, Brachylaima, which infects various animals and one species (B. cribbi) known to infect humans. The life cycle of Brachylaima...

Schistosoma haematobium (urinary blood fluke) is a species of digenetic trematode, belonging to a group (genus) of blood flukes (Schistosoma). It is found...

such as leaf litter. Cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes) have complex life-cycles, with mature stages that live as parasites in the digestive systems...

the progenetic trematode, Coitocaecum parvum (Opecoelidae). Molecular Ecology Notes 7:694-696 Lagrue, C. and R. Poulin. 2007. Life cycle abbreviation in...

gut or body wall to reach the coelom) are intestinal, though some life cycle stages rest in muscle or other tissues. The definitive host is always a vertebrate...

reproduce entirely within their host's body; they have a life cycle that includes some stages that need to take place outside of the host. Helminths are...

life cycle without the involvement of another host) and multiplication within the host. The parasitic cycle is homogonic, while the free-living cycle...

19:81-94, 1991. Lajtner et al.: "The effects of the trematode Bucephalus polymorphus on the reproductive cycle of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha in the...

the Caribbean, Brazil, Venezuela and Suriname. Unlike other flukes (trematodes) in which sexes are not separate (monoecious), schistosomes are unique...

Ribeiroia (/raɪˈbɪəriːə/) is a genus of trematode parasites that sequentially infect freshwater snails in the family Planorbidae (ramshorn snails) as...

There is some evidence connecting decreased liver function from the trematode infection with pregnancy toxaemia and mastitis in ewes when combined with...