Molecular approaches to trematode systematics:'best practice'and implications for future study

I Blasco-Costa, SC Cutmore, TL Miller, MJ Nolan - Systematic parasitology, 2016 - Springer
To date, morphological analysis has been the cornerstone to trematode systematics.
However, since the late-1980s we have seen an increased integration of genetic data to …

What we don't recognize can hurt us: a plea for awareness about cryptic species

GPP de León, SA Nadler - Journal of parasitology, 2010 - meridian.allenpress.com
We conducted an extensive literature review on studies that have used DNA sequences to
detect cryptic species of parasites during the last decade. Each literature citation that …

Morphological constraint obscures richness: a mitochondrial exploration of cryptic richness in Transversotrema (Trematoda: Transversotrematidae)

SC Cutmore, RD Corner, TH Cribb - International Journal for Parasitology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Species of Transversotrema Witenberg, 1944 (Transversotrematidae) occupy a
unique ecological niche for the Trematoda, living externally under the scales of their teleost …

A paradigm for the recognition of cryptic trematode species in tropical Indo-west Pacific fishes: the problematic genus Preptetos (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae)

RA Bray, SC Cutmore, TH Cribb - International Journal for Parasitology, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular data have transformed approaches to trematode taxonomy by providing objective
evidence for the delineation of species. However, although the data are objective, the …

Uneven distribution of cryptic diversity among higher taxa of parasitic worms

R Poulin - Biology Letters, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cryptic species cause problems for estimates of biodiversity. In the case of parasites, cryptic
species also plague efforts to detect potential zoonotic diseases or invasive pathogens. It is …

Diversity and ancestry of flatworms infecting blood of nontetrapod craniates “fishes”

R Orélis-Ribeiro, CR Arias, KM Halanych… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
We herein review all published molecular studies (life history, taxonomy, and phylogeny)
and summarize all GenBank sequences and primer sets for the “fish blood flukes”. Further …

Evidence that a lineage of teleost-infecting blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) infects bivalves as intermediate hosts

SC Cutmore, DTJ Littlewood… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Elsevier
The family Aporocotylidae is recognized as having the widest intermediate host usage in the
Digenea. Currently, intermediate host groups are clearly correlated with definitive host …

Two new species of threadlike blood flukes (Aporocotylidae), with a molecular revision of the genera Ankistromeces Nolan & Cribb, 2004 and Phthinomita Nolan & …

SC Cutmore, RQY Yong, JD Reimer, S Shirakashi… - Systematic …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Ankistromeces Nolan & Cribb, 2004 and Phthinomita Nolan & Cribb, 2006 are sister
genera of threadlike blood flukes (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) infecting teleost fishes of the …

Evidence for extensive cryptic speciation in trematodes of butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) of the tropical Indo-West Pacific

MKA McNamara, TL Miller, TH Cribb - International Journal for Parasitology, 2014 - Elsevier
Molecular data from the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox1) mitochondrial DNA gene and
the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) nuclear rDNA region were used to test the …

Trematodes of fishes of the Indo-west Pacific: told and untold richness

TH Cribb, RA Bray, PE Diaz, DC Huston, O Kudlai… - Systematic …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Indo-west Pacific is a marine bioregion stretching from the east coast of Africa
to Hawaii, French Polynesia and Easter Island. An assessment of the literature from the …