{"title":"Strongyloides spp.","authors":"Mark E Viney, James B Lok","doi":"10.1895/wormbook.1.141.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Strongyloides is a genus of parasitic nematodes, which, unusually, has a free-living adult generation. Here we introduce the biology of this genus, especially the fascinating, but complex, life-cycle together with an overview of the taxonomy, morphology, genetics and genomics of this genus.</p>","PeriodicalId":75344,"journal":{"name":"WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091011/pdf/","citationCount":"112","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1895/wormbook.1.141.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Strongyloides is a genus of parasitic nematodes, which, unusually, has a free-living adult generation. Here we introduce the biology of this genus, especially the fascinating, but complex, life-cycle together with an overview of the taxonomy, morphology, genetics and genomics of this genus.