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Leo Shapiro added text to "Life Cycle" on "Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus (Pallas, 1781)".
The definitive host for Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus (i.e., the host in which...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Risks" on "Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus (Pallas, 1781)".
Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus is one of the two main acanthocephalans known to...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Brief Summary" on "Balamuthia mandrillaris".
Among the many genera of free-living amoebae that exist in nature,...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Life Cycle" on "Balamuthia mandrillaris".
The B. mandrillaris life cycle has only two stages, a dormant...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Distribution" on "Balamuthia mandrillaris".
Balamuthia mandrillaris has a worldwide distribution, but its prevalence is higher...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Associations" on "Balamuthia mandrillaris".
Like other free-living amoebae, such as Acanthamoeba, Naegleria, and Hartmannella, ...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Risks" on "Balamuthia mandrillaris".
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba that, like some related amoebae...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Distribution" on "Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel, 1889)".
The Merchant Grain Beetle (Oryzaephilus mercator) is found throughout the world...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Look Alikes" on "Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel, 1889)".
The Merchant Grain Beetle (Oryzaephilus mercator) can be differentiated from Oryzaephilus...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "General Ecology" on "Taenia asiatica".
Conlan et al. (2009) explored the role of interspecific competition among...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Life Cycle" on "Taenia asiatica".
The life cycle of Taenia asiatica is complex. Eggs or gravid...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Risks" on "Taenia asiatica".
The cestode Taenia asiatica (Asian tapeworm) (along with T. saginata [beef...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Distribution" on "Taenia asiatica".
Taenia asiatica is limited to Asia and is seen mostly in...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Distribution" on "Rinderpest virus".
Until it was eradicated in the wild around the dawn of...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Systematics or Phylogenetics" on "Rinderpest virus".
The rinderpest virus is a close relative of the measles virus...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Risks" on "Rinderpest virus".
For centuries, the rinderpest virus (whose name is derived from the...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Physiology" on "Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)".
Degryse et al. (1978) and Degryse and Glansdorff (1981) studied the...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Systematics or Phylogenetics" on "Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)".
Gibbs et al. (2009) studied the phylogeny of Thermus isolates and...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Habitat" on "Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)".
Thermus aquaticus was originally isolated from a number of hot springs...
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Leo Shapiro added text to "Benefits" on "Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)".
The use of DNA polymerases from T. aquaticus and other thermophiles...
