Trematodes, also known as flukes, are a class of parasitic flatworms with intricate lifecycles. This makes them interesting to scientists, but they are also significant to both human health and ...

Using heatmaps, CU Boulder researchers find that certain parasites congregate in certain parts of amphibians’ bodies, often to dire physical consequences Trematodes, also known as flukes, are a class ...

In estuaries around the world, tiny trematode worms take over the bodies of aquatic snails. These parasitic flatworms invade the snail’s body and use its systems to support their colony, sometimes for ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered that a snail species carrying human-infecting flatworms known as trematodes is widespread in California. The scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90% of freshwater game fish in Southern California carry two types of parasitic flatworms (trematodes), which can lead ...

Table 1 Findings from mesocosm experiment examining the effect of atrazine on factors proposed to influence larval trematode loads in frogs. Larval trematode loads in amphibians must depend on the ...

Distributional heatmaps, in which a heatmap dot represents the average infection prevalence per grid cell for individual trematode species. Individual trematode distribution are: A. marcianae lime ...

Trematodes are now embedded in the U.S. freshwater ecosystem thanks to an invasive snail. While infections haven't been reported yet, doctors aren't required to track them — so they could be flying ...