Horizontal transfer (HT), or the passage of genetic material between non-mating species, is
increasingly recognized as an important force in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes …

We analysed two novel databases containing 2,380 and 8,202 host-parasite-locality records
for trematode parasites of molluscs and fishes, respectively, to assess the biodiversity of …

Research on the infection of snails by trematodes has been conducted in Europe for over a
hundred years. The initial poor knowledge of the intra-molluscan stages of these parasites …

Digenean trematodes are common and abundant in aquatic habitats and their free-living
larvae, the cercariae, have recently been recognized as important components of …

Background Analysis of the data available from traditional faunistic approaches to mollusc-
trematode systems covering large spatial and/or temporal scales in Europe convinced us …

Larval stages of Plagiorchis spp. are both ubiquitous and ecologically important parasites in
snail populations of freshwater ecosystems in Europe. However, difficulties in distinguishing …

Predation is considered one of the key drivers shaping the relationships between animals.
There is increasing evidence that non‐host aquatic taxa use free‐living parasite stages as …

There is a great need to understand the impact of complex communities on the free-living
parasite stages that are part of them. This task becomes more complex as nonnative species …

We assessed how spatial and temporal heterogeneity and competition structure larval
trematode communities in the pulmonate snail Lymnaea stagnalis. To postulate a …

The cercarial emergence patterns of three species of Diplostomum (Diplostomum 'mergi',
Diplostomum spathaceum and Diplostomum parviventosum) parasitizing freshwater first …