The Phylogeny and the Evolution of Parasitic Strategies in Trematoda
Chuan‐Yu Xiang, Y Hu, Tong Ye, Rui Song, Hong Zou, Gui-Tang Wang, Dong Zhang, Wen-Xiang Li, Ivan Jakovlić
This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of trematode parasitic strategies using mitogenomic and nuclear genomic data, finding that ancestral trematodes had direct life cycles with no intermediate hosts.
Current Zoology · Mar 2, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology