The miracidium is the second stage in the life cycle of trematodes. When trematode eggs are laid and come into contact with fresh water, they hatch and...
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parasite will develop from the miracidium. They also have an anterior spin which helps them drill into the snail. The miracidium develops into the sporocyst...
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Trematode life cycle stages (section Miracidium)
hatched within a host, typically a mollusc. The hatchling is called a miracidium, a free-swimming, ciliated larva. Miracidia will then grow and develop...
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Platyhelminthes Turbellaria: Müller's larva, Götte's larva; Trematoda: miracidium, sporocyst, redia, cercaria; Monogenea: oncomiracidium; Cestoda: cysticercus...
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dissolved by the snail's digestive enzymes, so the miracidium hatches from the egg. The ciliated miracidium can move about, penetrating the intestine, and...
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short-lived, non-feeding, free-living stage known as the miracidium emerges. The miracidium uses cilia to follow chemical and physical cues thought to...
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eggs are larger than 160 μm in diameter, they also fail to hatch. The miracidium (from the Greek word μειράκιον, meirakion, meaning youth) is pear-shaped...
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co-infection with S. mansoni (having a lateral-spined eggs) is common. The miracidium measures about 136 μm long and 55 μm wide. The body is covered by anucleate...
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the digenean eggs and asexual reproduction in the first larval stage (miracidium) is widely reported, the developmental biology of the asexual stages remains...
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PMID 1185431. Southgate, V. R. (2009). "Observations on the epidermis of the miracidium and on the formation of the tegument of the sporocyst of Fasciola hepatica"...
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