title: [Spatial organization of musculature in the Himasthla elongata cercaria (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae)].
abstract: Somatic muscles (body-wall and "parenchyma" musculature), muscles of suckers, alimentary tract and excretory bladder of Himasthla elongata cercaria were investigated using fluorescent phalloidin labelling and confocal microscopy. The arrangement of body-wall muscles differs between the certain parts of cercarial body and appears to be the most complicated in the collar district. Among the body-wall musculature, we described U-shaped muscles, which have never been found previously in trematodes. Muscles of oral and ventral suckers are grouped into 6-7 independent layers. In some of those layers, they are arranged bilaterally, which contradicts the tradition to consider the sucker as radially symmetric.
authors.forename: D Iu
authors.initials: DIu
authors.lastname: Krupenko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D058487:Cercaria / Q000166:cytology*; D004450:Echinostomatidae / Q000166:cytology*; D009132:Muscles / Q000166:cytology*