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Open AccessSingle-cell transcriptomics of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni first intra-molluscan stage reveals tentative tegumental and stem-cell regulators
Schistosomiasis is a major Neglected Tropical Disease, caused by the infection with blood flukes in the genus Schistosoma. To complete the life cycle, the parasite undergoes asexual and sexual reproduction within...
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Schistosomes go single cell
This Genome Watch article highlights how single-cell sequencing has transformed the approaches to understand schistosome developmental biology.
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Open AccessDefining the early stages of intestinal colonisation by whipworms
Whipworms are large metazoan parasites that inhabit multi-intracellular epithelial tunnels in the large intestine of their hosts, causing chronic disease in humans and other mammals. How first-stage larvae inv...
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Open AccessDaily rhythms in gene expression of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni
The consequences of the earth’s daily rotation have led to 24-h biological rhythms in most organisms. Even some parasites are known to have daily rhythms, which, when in synchrony with host rhythms, can optimi...
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Open AccessThe diversity, development and evolution of polyclad flatworm larvae
Polyclad flatworms offer an excellent system with which to explore the evolution of larval structures and the ecological and developmental mechanisms driving flatworm and marine invertebrate life history evolu...
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Open AccessPut a tiger in your tank: the polyclad flatworm Maritigrella crozieri as a proposed model for evo-devo
Polyclad flatworms are an early branching clade within the rhabditophoran Platyhelminthes. They provide an interesting system with which to explore the evolution of development within Platyhelminthes and among...
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Open AccessEmbryonic and post-embryonic development of the polyclad flatworm Maritigrella crozieri; implications for the evolution of spiralian life history traits
Planktonic life history stages of spiralians share some muscular, nervous and ciliary system characters in common. The distribution of these characters is patchy and can be interpreted either as the result of ...
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Biodiversity of coastal polyclad flatworm assemblages in the wider Caribbean
Polyclads are mobile predators and possibly an important functional component of hard substrate marine environments globally. To understand the natural patterns of spatial differences, polyclad assemblages wer...
