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Are there Host Strains within the Species of Syngamus trachea?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Phyllis A. Clapham
Phyllis A. Clapham
Affiliation:
(Research Assistant, Institute of Agricultural Parasitology, St. Albans.)
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In 1928 Taylor put forward the theory that “…Syngamus trachea is a species within which there may be found a number of strains showing a peculiar physiological adaptation to the host in which they occur.” He had not had much success in a number of experiments in which he had tried to infect chickens with S. trachea from starlings. The first experimental feedings resulted in only light infections though control experiments with the chicken “strain” resulted in much heavier ones. After the first passage through the chicken however, the gapeworms had become more adapted to the new host, and could produce much more serious infections in the next generation.

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Research Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 1938 , pp. 49 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1938

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