New Insights on the Male and Female Reproductive Organs of Centrorhynchus globocaudatus (Acanthocephala), Intestinal Parasite of Birds of Prey
Bahram Sayyaf Dezfuli,
Flavio Pironi,
Emanuele Rossetti
et al.
Abstract:Acanthocephalans are dioecious parasites that gain sexual maturity in the alimentary canal of their definitive hosts (gnathostome vertebrates). This initial survey by light and transmission electron microscopy was conducted on the functional organization of the ovarian balls and uterine bell in mature females and on Saefftigen’s pouch and the copulatory bursa in males. We studied these structures via the example of Centrorhynchus globocaudatus (Palaeacanthocephala) in Falco tinnunculus and Buteo buteo, from th… Show more
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