Asexual Multiplication of Mesocestoides Tetrathyridia in Laboratory Animals

Temporal and between-site variation in helminth communities of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) from N.E. Poland. 1. Regional fauna and component community levels

“…However, because in some subsets of data specific parasites were not found (prevalence=0 %) these subsets were excluded, and for this reason the degrees of freedom fall below 4 in some cases.) are known to do (Specht and Voge, 1965 ;Chernin and McLaren, 1983). Although we have seen many infected animals, we have never encountered dividing forms and this is consistent with the findings of .…”

Systematics of Mesocestoides (Cestoda: Mesocestoididae): Evaluation of Molecular and Morphological Variation Among Isolates

“…Although it has been suggested that Mesocestoides spp. has a comparatively high degree of morphological variability (Voge, 1955;Specht and Voge, 1965;Rausch 1994;Gubanyi and Eszterbauer, 1998), the amount of phenotypic diversity measured within clades of adult Mesocestoides spp. was similar to that found within species of Taenia.…”

Studies on the genus Mesocestoides (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea)

“…wall, was never apparent in exposed organisms. Since no sign of asexual reproduction in natural infections of tetrathyridia, as described by Specht and Voge (1965) and Voge and Coulombe (1966), has been noted, this mechanism, presumably abnormal, does not appear to be a typical, natu rally occurring process. Ssolonitzjjn ( 1933) Results of my studies support the investigations of * Whittaker who, having fed mesocestoidid eggs to numbers of laboratory reared oribatid mites, suggests that, at best, mites perhaps act as abnormal invertebrate hosts.…”

“…The technique of Specht and Voge (1965) In addition to the vertebrate hosts, numerous inverte brate hosts, some taken from the wild and some laboratory reared, were fed whole proglottiJs, parauterine organs *Steinhilber, E. G. Steinhilber & Company, Inc., Oskosh, Wisconsin. Personal communication (letter).…”

“…VJltenberg (1934) reviewed these experimental efforts and presented some of his original studies as well. Since Wltenberg's (1934) Carta (1939), Srlvastava (1939), Wetzel and Qulttek (1940), Soldatova (1944), Webster (1949), Maskar (1953), Anantamaran (1954) and Specht and Voge (1965) have all contributed to life cycle studies on Mesocestoldes. Wltenberg (1934) did not report Investigations of Joyeux, Baer and Martin (1933), gested that tetrathyridla found in birds may be the larval stage of adult oestodes in raptorial birds, but apparently no extensive experimental studies have been made on mesocestoidids in birds.…”