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- noun Plural form of
cestode .
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Examples
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A molecular phylogeny of anoplocephaline cestodes in rodents and lagomorphs.
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Haukisalmi and Henttonen [154] found that precipitation in early summer was the most important factor affecting the prevalence of common nematodes and cestodes in Clethrionomys voles in Finnish Lapland.
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Phylogenetic studies have shown that host switches have occurred in many clades of rodent cestodes [152].
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Phylogeographic structure (often cryptic speciation) can be seen in rodent cestodes in the Arctic even if there is no such structure in the host.
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Flatworms (platyhelminths) – these include the trematodes (flukes) and cestodes (tapeworms).
Parasite 2008
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The acanthocephala are thought to be intermediate between the cestodes and nematodes.
Parasite 2008
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The cestodes have very limited sensory abilities due to their parasitic existence.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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The life cycles of cestodes vary in their requirements for number of intermediate hosts.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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McLean found the stomach full of fish and myriads of cestodes in the intestines.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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Tapeworms, or cestodes, are intestinal parasites; they are worms that are flattened like a tape measure.
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