Environmental parasitology deals with the interactions between parasites and pollutants in
the environment. Their sensitivity to pollutants and environmental disturbances makes many …

Parasites are attracting increasing interest from parasite ecologists as potential indicators of
environmental quality because of the variety of ways in which they respond to anthropogenic …

Although interest in Acanthocephala seems to have reached only a small community of
researchers worldwide, we show in this opinion article that this group of parasites is …

Intestinal helminths of fish are of increasing interest as potential bioindicators for heavy
metal contamination in aquatic habitats. Among these parasites cestodes and …

In this review recent morphological and histochemical descriptions have been compiled of
(mainly outer) features of all developmental stages of the Acanthocephala as well as what is …

Parasites are attracting increasing interest from parasite ecologists as potential indicators of
environmental quality due to the variety of ways in which they respond to anthropogenic …

Sures, B., and Siddall, R. 1999. Pomphorhynchus laevis: The intestinal acanthocephalan as
a lead sink for its fish host, chub (Leuciscus cephalus). Experimental Parasitology93, 66–72 …

Global warming scenarios combined with political and public awareness have led to
increasing funding and research efforts on the measurement and prediction of effects of a …

Concentrations of As, Al, Ag, Ba, Bi, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ga, Mg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sb, Sn, Sr, Tl, V
and Zn were analyzed by inductively coupled mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in the intestinal …

Parasites can be used as effective monitoring tools in environmental impact studies as they
are able to accumulate certain pollutants (eg metals) at levels much higher than those of …