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SUBMITTER: Kostygov AY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710968 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parasitology research 20231211 1
In this work, we investigated parasites of the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus in Austria and demonstrated that in addition to the extensively studied Leptomonas pyrrhocoris, it can also be infected by Blastocrithidia sp. and by a mermithid, which for the first time has been characterized using molecular methods. This diversity can be explained by the gregarious lifestyle, as well as the coprophagous and cannibalistic behavior of the insect hosts that makes them susceptible to various parasites. In ...[more]