The tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta is a common parasite of the small intestine in rodents
but it can also infect humans. Due to its characteristics and ease of maintenance in the …

Cestodes (tapeworms) have complex adaptations to their obligatory parasitic life-style.
Among these adaptations, they show many evolutionary innovations in their development …

Parasites belonging to the class Cestoda include zoonotic species such as Echinococcus
spp. and Taenia spp. that cause morbidity and mortality in endemic areas, mainly affecting …

Abstract Background Hymenolepis microstoma (Dujardin, 1845) Blanchard, 1891, the
mouse bile duct tapeworm, is a rodent/beetle-hosted laboratory model that has been used in …

Background Echinococcosis and cysticercosis are neglected tropical diseases caused by
cestode parasites (family Taeniidae). Not only there is a small number of approved …

Parasitic flatworms present several steps of body architecture rearrangement during their
fast transition from one developmental stage to another, which are, at least in part …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNAs, are key regulators of gene
expression at post-transcriptional level and play essential roles in fundamental biological …

Cestode development involves complex morphological and physiological changes. Here,
we performed a differential expression analysis of gene transcripts between two …

In order to elucidate host–parasite interactions and infection strategies of helminths at the
molecular level, the availability of suitable in vitro cultivation systems for this group of …

Background In free-living flatworms somatic differentiated cells do not divide, and a separate
population of stem cells (called neoblasts) is responsible for cell proliferation and renewal …