Digenetic trematodes: multiplication of the intramolluscan stages in some species is potentially unlimited.
By carrying out chain-transplantations of intramolluscan stages of digeneans from infected to uninfected snails it has been demonstrated that a great number of generations of these stages can follow one another. In Echinostomatids the succession of redial generations potentially seems to be unlimited.
Dönges
J
J
Institute of Zoology, Bavarian University of Würzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Götzelmann
M
M
D000818:Animals; D005209:Fasciola / Q000502:physiology; D005298:Fertility; D008195:Lymnaea / Q000469:parasitology; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000502:physiology; D012908:Snails / Q000469:parasitology*; D014200:Trematoda / Q000502:physiology*