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 …

Integrating molecular and morphological approaches for characterizing parasite cryptic species: implications for parasitology

SA Nadler, GPP DE LEÓN - Parasitology, 2011 - cambridge.org
Herein we review theoretical and methodological considerations important for finding and
delimiting cryptic species of parasites (species that are difficult to recognize using traditional …

Homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts?

A Dobson, KD Lafferty, AM Kuris, RF Hechinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - pnas.org
Estimates of the total number of species that inhabit the Earth have increased significantly
since Linnaeus's initial catalog of 20,000 species. The best recent estimates suggest that …

DNA barcodes show cryptic diversity and a potential physiological basis for host specificity among Diplostomoidea (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) parasitizing freshwater …

SA Locke, J Daniel McLaughlin… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Diplostomoid metacercariae parasitize freshwater fishes worldwide and cannot be identified
to species based on morphology. In this study, sequences of the barcode region of …

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 …

Revealing the secret lives of cryptic species: examining the phylogenetic relationships of echinostome parasites in North America

JT Detwiler, DH Bos, DJ Minchella - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2010 - Elsevier
The recognition of cryptic parasite species has implications for evolutionary and population-
based studies of wildlife and human disease. Echinostome trematodes are a widely …

Parasites alter host phenotype and may create a new ecological niche for snail hosts

O Miura, AM Kuris, ME Torchin… - … of the Royal …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
By modifying the behaviour and morphology of hosts, parasites may strongly impact host
individuals, populations and communities. We examined the effects of a common trematode …

Two in one: cryptic species discovered in biological control agent populations using molecular data and crossbreeding experiments

ID Paterson, R Mangan, DA Downie… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There are many examples of cryptic species that have been identified through DNA‐
barcoding or other genetic techniques. There are, however, very few confirmations of cryptic …

Introduced cryptic species of parasites exhibit different invasion pathways

O Miura, ME Torchin, AM Kuris, RF Hechinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - pnas.org
Sometimes infectious agents invade and become established in new geographic regions.
Others may be introduced yet never become established because of the absence of suitable …

A fine‐scale phylogenetic assessment of digenean trematodes in central Alberta reveals we have yet to uncover their total diversity

MA Gordy, PC Hanington - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite over 100 years of digenean trematode parasite species descriptions, from a wide
diversity of vertebrate and invertebrate host species, our ability to recognize the diversity of …