Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1948 from the northwest Atlantic and their phylogenetic relationships with freshwater lineages

• Main Author: Golfetti, Yu
• Other Authors: Marques, Fernando Portella de Luna
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP 2018
• Subjects: Biogeografia; Neotropical; Tamanho amostral; Especficidade; Coevolução; Co-evolution; Biogeography; Sample size; Host specficity; Blanchard; Larga; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41133/tde-01032019-083159/; https://doi.org/10.11606/D.41.2019.tde-01032019-083159

Parasite documentation has been an important tool to understand host history and co-evolutionary processes in these associations. Acanthobothrium is a worldwide genus of cestodes, and it is a parasite of sharks, skates and rays, with almost 200 nominal species. Recent studies are presenting new hypo...