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The phylogenetics of Anguillicolidae (Nematoda: Anguillicoloidea), swimbladder parasites of eels.
BMC evolutionary biology - 4 May 2012
Laetsch Dominik R, Heitlinger Emanuel G, Taraschewski Horst, Nadler Steven A, Blaxter Mark L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Anguillicolidae Yamaguti, 1935 is a family of parasitic nematode infecting fresh-water eels of the genus Anguilla, comprising five species in the genera Anguillicola and Anguillicoloides. Anguillicoloides crassus is of particular importance, as it has recently spread from its endemic range in the Eastern Pacific to Europe and North America, where it poses a significant threat to new, naïve hosts such...
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