If I have seen further than others, it is
by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
*in all Lab photos: 1 unit = 1 µm (unless otherwise indicated)
Ascaris lumbricoides egg
Enterobius vermicularis egg
Trichuris trichiura egg
Necator americanus egg
Necator americanus anterior end, and close-ups of the mouth with characteristic broad cutting plates (left).
Female (top, right) posterior end. Male bursa (bottom) with fused spicules.
Ancylostoma duodenale mouth with ventral teeth (left, top), and male copulatory bursa with spicules (left, bottom).
Enterobius vermicularis adult female whole mount (left); with details of anterior (top center) and posterior (bottom center).
Enterobius vermicularis adult male whole mount (top right); with detail of posterior (bottom right).
Ascaris sp. anterior end with lips (left), Ascaris sp. (center), and Trichurus trichuria whole mount female (right).
Diphillobothrium latum egg entire, and with opened operculum (left). Taenia saginata egg (right), both from human fecal smears.
A pseudophyllidean Tapeworm: Taenia pisiformis whole mount.
A pseudophyllidean Tapeworm: Diphyllobothrium latum scolex (top) and mature proglottids (below) from a whole mount.
A cyclophyllidean Tapeworm: Hymenolepis diminuta adult tapeworm from a rat (left) and cysterceroid life stage from a beetle (right).
Detail of proglottid with reproductive structures
Echinococcus granulosus scolex (top) and whole mount of the adult tapeworm with a single mature proglottid (bottom).
Alaine Knipes : PhD Candidate : School of Biological Sciences : University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68588
Phone: (402) 472-2754 email
Phone: (402) 472-2754 email