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<i>Metacollinia emscheri</i> n. sp., a novel sanguicolous apostome ciliate of freshwater amphipods ( <i>Gammarus</i> spp.)
2024-07-16
Abstract excerpt
We describe a novel sanguicolous parasitic ciliate, Metacollinia emscheri n. sp., found in the freshwater amphipods Gammarus pulex and G. fossarum . This ciliate infected up to 20% of the amphipods collected in a German stream catchment, the Boye, a tributary of the river Emscher. The ciliate showed morphological characteristics fitting the genus Metacollinia . Different life stages of variable size occurred s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ecf9a211-9a0f-53cc-9739-177a6119f5f7
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.07.10.602951
