Haemonchus contortus is a highly pathogenic, blood-feeding nematode of small ruminants,
and a significant cause of mortalities worldwide. Haemonchosis is a particularly significant …

Freshwater snails of the family Lymnaeidae are of a great parasitological importance
because of the very numerous helminth species they transmit, mainly trematodiases of large …

Parasitic helminth infections have a considerable impact on global human health as well as
animal welfare and production. Although co-infection with multiple parasite species within a …

Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge
opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the collection or …

Larvae of three species of anisakid nematode from fish, Anisakis simplex, Hysterothylacium
aduncum and Contracaecum osculatum, were characterised genetically using a molecular …

The accurate analysis of genetic variation has major implications in many areas of
biomedical research, including the identification of infectious agents (such as parasites), the …

Next-generation deep amplicon sequencing, or metabarcoding, has revolutionized the study
of microbial communities in humans, animals and the environment. However, such …

The nucleotide sequence of the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS-2) from ribosomal
DNA has been determined for 3 members of the Hypodontus macropi species complex …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes genetic approaches to answer a variety of
questions in the population biology of parasitic helminths. It lays particular emphasis on …

A thorough and coherent classification of the phylum Nematoda is essential if the evolution
of countless phenotypes is to be understood. Here, Mark Dorris, Paul De Ley and Mark …