An unnamed microcercous cercaria (Digenea: Monorchiidae), a parasite of Amiantis purpurata (Lamarck, 1818) (Bivalvia: Veneridae) and its corresponding metacercaria from the province of Buenos Aires and the Patagonian coast of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean, are described. The cercaria described in this paper differs from the three other monorchiid microcercous cercariae, i.e., Lasiotocus minutus ...

Kalinzulinus gen. nov. and minutus sp. from Uganda are described illustrated. The following new species also illustrated: Thyreocephalus tanzanicus related to T. mocquerysi (Fauvel, 1903), Agaporina tanzanica fromTanzania, Chaetocinus gabonicus Gabon, C. asymetricus Bordoni, 2016 jokoensis Cameroon, persalsus Cameroon Congo. male of Nudobius quadriceps Cameron, 1929 is figured for the first time.

Visceral urate deposition (visceral gout) is a common finding during post-mortem examination of poultry. Rare cases of visceral gout may occur in wild birds. A rare case of visceral urate deposition in a little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) is reported here. In May 2013, carcass of a little bittern was submitted for necropsy to the Clinic of Poultry Diseases (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Razi...

Eustigmatophyceae (Ochrophyta, Stramenopiles) is a small algal group with species of the genus Nannochloropsis being its best studied representatives. Nuclear and organellar genomes have been recently sequenced for several Nannochloropsis spp., but phylogenetically wider genomic studies are missing for eustigmatophytes. We sequenced mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of three species represent...

Over 5 years (2000-2004), populations of small mammals from a rural landscape in southern Moravia (Czech Republic) were investigated for the presence of Tula virus (TULV) antigen using the ELISA set Hantagnost. In total, 1566 individuals from 10 species were examined. The prevalence in the common vole (Microtus arvalis Pallas 1778), the main reservoir of TULV, was 10% (n = 871). The prevalence ...

The heligmonellid nematode Carolinensis minutus (Dujardin, 1845) Travassos, 1937 is recorded for the first time in Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761) United Kingdom. Small heligmosomoid specimens were recovered from a M. vole inhabiting mole ( Talpa europaea Linnaeus, 1758) tunnels mid Wales. identity of these was confirmed as C. by >99% nucleotide with internally transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 ...

Amphipods are commonly parasitized by acanthocephalans and microsporidians and co-infections are found frequently. Both groups of parasites are known to have severe effects on their host. For example, microsporidians can modify host sex ratio and acanthocephalans can manipulate the behavior of the amphipod to promote transmission to the final host. These effects influence host metabolism in gen...

Abstract Associations of insects that live in nests and burrows small mammals are relatively poorly explored. This work therefore tries to expand the knowledge about Diptera communities (Psychodidae Sphaeroceridae) two mammals, namely Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) Muscardinus avellanarius (Linnaeus, 1758). In Eurasian harvest mouse psychodid species one sphaerocerid species, while hazel dormo...