Trichobilharzia ocellata

Eeiler, W. and Haas, W. (1988). Trichobilharzia ocellata chemical stimuli of duck skin for cercarial attachment. Parasitology 96,507-517. 

Sopott-Ehlers, B., Haas, W. and Ehlers, U. (2003) Ultrastructure of pigmented and unpigmented photoreceptors in cercariae of Trichobilharzia ocellata (PlatheIminthes, Trematoda, Schistosomatidae) evidence for the evolution of parasitism within the Neodermata. Parasitology Research 91, 109-116. 

Previous results have shown that parasite infection of the snail host affects the neuroendocrine system of the snail in a way that results in reduced reproduction of these snails a phenomenon referred to as parasitic castration (Crews and Yoshino 1989 Sorensen and Minchella, 2001). The Lymnaea stagnalis-Trichobilharzia ocellata host-parasite combination has been the model system adopted for most of these studies (de Jong-Brink et at., 2001). However, comparable studies as to how parasite infection affects the snail s central nervous system (CNS) in releasing neuropeptides and bioamines that modulate snail reproduction and the internal defence system of... 

Bahgat, M. and Ruppel, A. (2002) Biochemical comparison of the serine protease (elastase) activities in cercar-ial secretions from Trichobilharzia ocellata and Schistosoma mansoni. Parasitology Research 88, 495-500. 

Solis-Soto, J.M. and Brink, M.D. (1994) Immunocytochemical study on biologically active neurosubstances in daughter sporocysts and cercaria of Trichobilharzia ocellata and Schistosoma mansoni. Parasitology 108, 301-31 1. 

Henk, D. F. G. Schallig, Young, N. J., Magee, R. M., deJong-Brink, M. and Rees, H. H. (1991) Identification of free and conjugated ecdysteroids in cercariae of the schistosome Trichobilharzia ocellata. Mol. Biochem. ParasitoL 49 169-176. 

C.H. Hokke, A.P. Neeleman, C.A.M. Koeleman and D.H. Van den Eijnden, Identification of an a3-fucosyltransferase and a novel a2-fucosyltransferase activity in cercariae of the schistosome Trichobilharzia ocellata—Biosynthesis of the Fucal- 2Fucal 3[Gal(NAc)pi—>4]GlcNAc sequence. Glycobiology, 1998, 8, 393-406. 

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