Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Cestoidea .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A subclass of parasitic worms of the class Cestoidea. In some classifications, it is not differentiated from the parent class.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thephylum Platyhelminthes — thecestode parasites .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tapeworms
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Examples
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Echinococcus granulosus Cestoda: Taeniidae infections and moose-wolf population dynamics in southwestern Quebec.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Molecular and morphological evidence for multiple species within Paranoplocephala omphalodes (Hermann, 1783) (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) in Microtus-voles (Arvicolinae).
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Phylogeography of the circumpolar '' Paranoplocephala arctica '' species complex (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) parasitizing collared lemmings ( '' Dicrostonyx '' spp.).
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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Echinococcus granulosus Cestoda: Taeniidae infections and moose-wolf population dynamics in southwestern Quebec.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Echinococcus granulosus Cestoda: Taeniidae infections and moose-wolf population dynamics in southwestern Quebec.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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We examine platyhelminth genomes and transcriptomes and find that all platyhelminth parasites (from classes Cestoda and Trematoda) conform to a biochemical scenario involving, exclusively, a selenium-dependent linked thioredoxin-glutathione system having TGR as a central redox hub.
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Class Cestoda (paracitic flatworms), commonly known as the tapeworms consists of long (6m or 20 ft.), soft-bodied, legless invertebrates with bilateral symmetry.
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