Ultrastructure and cytochemistry of intrauterine embryonic and larval stages of Ityogonimus lorum (Digenea: Brachylaimidae) involving transitory development of ciliated miracidia

• Published in: Parasitology research (1987) Vol. 119; no. 5; pp. 1583 - 1595
• Main Authors: Świderski, Zdzisław, Conn, David Bruce, Miquel, Jordi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cilia; Cytochemistry; Developmental stages; Egg shells; Eggs; Embryogenesis; Embryonic development; Embryonic Development - physiology; Epithelium; Female; Glands; Helminthology - Original Paper; Histocytochemistry; Immunology; Larva - anatomy & histology; Larva - growth & development; Life cycles; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; Moles - parasitology; Morphogenesis; Morphogenesis - physiology; Nervous system; Organelles; Talpa occidentalis; Transmission electron microscopy; Trematoda - classification; Trematoda - embryology; Trematoda - ultrastructure; Trematode Infections - transmission; Ultrastructure; Uterus; Uterus - parasitology; Japan; Spain; Miracidial morphogenesis; Intrauterine embryogenesis; Brachylaimidae; Cytochemistry; Ultrastructure; Ityogonimus lorum

Results of the present study provide ultrastructural evidence that miracidial morphogenesis is fully completed within the intrauterine eggs while in the most posterior uterine regions of Ityogonimus lorum , a digenean parasite of an Iberian mole, Talpa occidentalis (Eulipotyphla, Talpidae). Using tr...