Name - Onchocerca

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:11579 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Onchocerca Diesing 1841

• Onchocerca Diesing

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus,Higher taxon

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Barcoding a can of worms: testing cox1 performance as a DNA barcode of Nematoda.
• Presence of a cryptic Onchocerca species in black flies of northern California, USA.
• Micro-CT imaging of Onchocerca infection of Simulium damnosum s.l. blackflies and comparison of the peritrophic membrane thickness of forest and savannah flies.
• Sores of boreal moose reveal a previously unknown genetic lineage of parasitic nematode within the genus Onchocerca.
• First report of filarial nematodes in the genus Onchocerca infecting black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Iran.

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