Family Ascaridiidae

Revised 10/04/21

• A family of nematodes that are mainly intestinal parasites of birds.
•  Nematodes with direct lifecycles, no intermeduiate hosts, and are primarily parasites of the intestinal tract.

References

Guo-Hua Liu G-H., Steven A. Nadler, Shan-Shan Liu, Magdalena Podolska4 Stefano D’Amelio, Renfu Shao, Robin B.Gasser & Xing-Quan Zhu. 2016. Mitochondrial Phylogenomics yields Strongly Supported Hypotheses for Ascaridomorph Nematodes.Nature Scientific Reports 6:Article number: 39248

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