Land snails can trap trematode cercariae in their shell: encapsulation as a general response against parasites?

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  • who: Gu00e9rard Claudia et al. from the Universitu00e9 Rennes, UR1, CNRS, ECOBIO (Ecosystu00e8mes, Biodiversitu00e9, u00e9volution), UMR, Rennes, France Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium have published the paper: Land snails can trap trematode cercariae in their shell: Encapsulation as a general response against parasites?, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors used data from a range of local populations of these three species to determine whether they were able to use their shell as a defence system to encase and kill metazoan parasites other than nematodes, and especially trematodes. The study demonstrates that trematode . . .

     

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