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Platyhelminthes - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/platyhelminthes.html

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General information on the phylum Platyhelminthes.

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Parasitology Online - English
URL: http://www.parasitology-online.com/parasitology/show/

Journal Contents: Molecular and Biochemical, Parasitology, Acta Tropica, International Journal for Parasitology, Parasitology International, Veterinary Parasitology, Trends in Parasitology.

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Comparative Parasitology - English
URL: http://www.gettysburg.edu/~shendrix/helmsoc.html#comparative

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Contents of Comparative Parasitology. Volume 68(1) - January, 2001, Volume 67(2) - July, 2000, Volume 67(1) - January, 2000. Contents of the Journal, 1990-1999.

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Introduction to the Platyhelminthes - English
URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/platyhelminthes/platyhelminthes.html

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General information on turbellarians, including photos and links.

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Schistosome Group Prague - English
URL: http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~horak/

The group consists of two institutionally independent research teams: the helminthological group at the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University (head of the group: P. Horak) and the helminthological group at the Department of Tropical Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (head of the group: L. Kolarova).

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Zoology projects - schistosomes - English
URL: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/intro/zoology/project3/index.html

Schistosomes are small flukes which live in the bloodstream of infected people, mainly children. Parasite eggs, passed in urine or faeces, hatch in contact with water to release free-swimming larvae which actively seek out and penetrate a particular kind of freshwater snail. After a period of multiplication within the snail, the parasites emerge and infect humans or other mammalian hosts by direct penetration through the skin.

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Wormland Home Page - English
URL: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~djab/

Information on the nervous system of a range of selected parasitic helminths and the freeliving nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans

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Zoological Institute Laboratory of Parasitic Worms - English
URL: http://www.zin.ru/labs/worms_e.htm

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The Laboratory studies the systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of various groups of parasitic worms, and the use of parasitological data for the reconstruction of the formation of the parasitofauna of various host groups. These studies focus on monogeneans, cestodes of birds, trematodes of bats, udonellids, phytonematodes, parasites of fishes, and helminths of insectivores. In the past few years, the Laboratory has been involved in creating computer generated data bases for use in research. Recently, a data base on the cestode collection has been completed. The Laboratory's collection includes tens of thousands of specimens and is regularly enriched with material from expeditions to different parts of Russia and to countries abroad. T. A. Timofeeva is the Curator of the Laboratory's collections.

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Laboratoire de Biologie Parasitaire, MNHN, Paris - French
URL: http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/bpph/welcome.html

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Laboratoire de Biologie Parasitaire, Protistologie, Helminthologie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Chercheurs, recherche, publications, enseignement, collections.

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The Helminthological Society of Washington - English
URL: http://www.gettysburg.edu/~shendrix/helmsoc.html

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The Helminthological Society of Washington, the prototype scientific organization for parasitological research in North America was founded in 1910 by a devoted group of parasitologists in Washington, D.C. Forging a niche in national and international parasitology over the past century, the Society focuses on comparative research, emphasizing taxonomy, systematics, ecology, biogeography and faunal survey inventory within a morphological and molecular foundation.

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CABI Publishing - Helminthological Abstracts - English
URL: http://WWW.CABI.ORG/Publishing/Products/JOURNALS/Abstract/HMA/Index.asp

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Helminthological Abstracts covers the literature on all parasitic helminths including: Gastrointestinal nematodes, Liver flukes, Echinococcus, Schistosomas, Filariids, Taenia, Trichinella. Aspects include: Morphology, Taxonomy, Immunology, Pathology, Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Life history, Control, Molecular biology.

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Ancestral Flatworms - English
URL: http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/earlflat.html

arly forms of jellyfish seem to have evolved into various different kinds of worms, one of which was the ancestor of flatworms. They, in turn, probably evolved into higher animals. Ancestral flatworms may have first appeared around 570 million years ago. Here we see the basic plan laid out for the structure of the body which would be used and modified by all later groups of animals.

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Platyhelminthes - Flatworms - English
URL: http://www.abs.sdstate.edu/bio/Hutchesh/bio101/Graphics/LAB10/tsld005.htm

Key Characteristics: bilaterally symmetrical, flattened body, mouth at end of protractible pharynx, gastrovascular cavity, eyespots.

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The Parasitology Images List - English
URL: http://www.utep.edu/biology/micro/qut/paramast.htm

A Collection of Images of Medically Important Parasites.

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Platyhelminthes Links - English
URL: http://www.ctap.org/net1/platyhelminthes_links.htm

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Marine Flatworms of the World! - Introduction - English
URL: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/flatintr.htm

All about marine polyclad flatworms (Polycladida, Turbellaria, Platyhelminthes), photo galleries, biology and distribution.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes - English
URL: http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Animalia/

The phylum Platyhelminthes represents all flatworms in the kingdom Animalia. Flatworms are relatively primitive animals that represent an early lineage in the kingdom. Unlike the even more primitive phylum cnidaria, all flatworms of the phylum Platyhelminthes are bilaterally symmetrical, having an anterior, posterior, dorsal, and ventral end and two seemingly identical lateral surfaces. However, flatworms are the only type of bilaterally symmetrical animal that lacks any type of body cavity, a fluid filled space between the digestive tract and the body wall. In the flatworms, this area is filled with tissue.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes, flatworms - English
URL: http://www.robinsonresearch.com/ANIMALS/PLATYHEL/Platyhelminthes.htm

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Short discription of phylum: taxonomy, habitat, classes, their characteristics.

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