References
Selected References
Brooks, D. R. 1989. The phylogeny of the Cercomeria (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) and general evolutionary principles. J. Parasitol. 75:606–616. Cladistic analysis of parasitic flatworms.
Desowitz, R. S. 1981. New Guinea tapeworms and Jewish grandmothers. New York, W. W. Norton & Company. Accounts of parasites and parasitic diseases of humans. Entertaining and instructive. Recommended for all students.
Ehlers, U. 1985. Phylogenetic relationships within the Platyhelminthes. In Conway Morris, S., J. D. George, R. Gibson, and H. M. Platt (eds). The origins and relationships of lower invertebrates. Oxford, Clarendon Press. Presents relationships of groups normally assigned to the paraphyletic Turbellaria.
Ruiz-Trillo, I., M. Riutort, D. Timoth, J. Littlewood, E. A. Herniou, and J. Baguñà. 1999. Acoel flatworms: earliest extant bilaterian metazoans, not members of Platyhelminthes. Science 283:1919–1923. The case for Acoela serving as a sister group for the remaining Bilateria.
Schell, S. C. 1985. Handbook of trematodes of North America north of Mexico. Moscow, Idaho, University Press of Idaho. Good for trematode identification.
Schmidt, G. D. 1985. Handbook of tapeworm identification. Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press. Up-to-date manual for cestode identification.
Strickland, G. T. 2000. Hunter’s tropical medicine and emerging infectious diseases, ed. 8. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company. A valuable source of information on parasites of medical importance.
Brooks, D. R. 1989. The phylogeny of the Cercomeria (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) and general evolutionary principles. J. Parasitol. 75:606–616. Cladistic analysis of parasitic flatworms.
Desowitz, R. S. 1981. New Guinea tapeworms and Jewish grandmothers. New York, W. W. Norton & Company. Accounts of parasites and parasitic diseases of humans. Entertaining and instructive. Recommended for all students.
Ehlers, U. 1985. Phylogenetic relationships within the Platyhelminthes. In Conway Morris, S., J. D. George, R. Gibson, and H. M. Platt (eds). The origins and relationships of lower invertebrates. Oxford, Clarendon Press. Presents relationships of groups normally assigned to the paraphyletic Turbellaria.
Ruiz-Trillo, I., M. Riutort, D. Timoth, J. Littlewood, E. A. Herniou, and J. Baguñà. 1999. Acoel flatworms: earliest extant bilaterian metazoans, not members of Platyhelminthes. Science 283:1919–1923. The case for Acoela serving as a sister group for the remaining Bilateria.
Schell, S. C. 1985. Handbook of trematodes of North America north of Mexico. Moscow, Idaho, University Press of Idaho. Good for trematode identification.
Schmidt, G. D. 1985. Handbook of tapeworm identification. Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press. Up-to-date manual for cestode identification.
Strickland, G. T. 2000. Hunter’s tropical medicine and emerging infectious diseases, ed. 8. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company. A valuable source of information on parasites of medical importance.
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