Over the past 80 years, tilapia have been translocated globally for aquaculture; active
production is recorded in> 124 countries. Of 7 million tonnes of tilapia produced in …

Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes form a clade called Rouphozoa. Representatives of both
taxa are main components of meiofaunal communities, but their role in the trophic ecology of …

Digeneans and cestodes are species‐rich taxa and can seriously impact human health,
fisheries, aqua‐and agriculture, and wildlife conservation and management. DNA barcoding …

Parasites are agents of disease in humans, livestock, crops, and wildlife and are powerful
representations of the ecological and historical context of the diseases they cause …

Background Species of the genera Bipalium and Diversibipalium, or bipaliines, are giants
among land planarians (family Geoplanidae), reaching length of 1 m; they are also easily …

Thanks to high species diversity and a broad range of speciation mechanisms, cichlid fishes
represent a textbook model in evolutionary biology. They are also of substantial economic …

Using 28S ribosomal DNA sequences, we inferred the internal relationships of the order
Polycladida. We identified morphological characters for clade support when possible …

During a study of the monogeneans of four sparid fishes (Diplodus vulgaris, Pagellus
bogaraveo, Pagrus pagrus and Sparus aurata) from the Western Mediterranean off Algeria …

Despite metabarcoding being widely used to analyse bacterial community composition, its
application in parasitological research remains limited. What interest there has been has …

Few tropical marine sites have been thoroughly characterised for their animal species, even
though they constitute the largest proportion of multicellular diversity. A number of focused …