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The Life History of Nematodirus filicollis Rud., a Nematode Parasite of the Sheep's Intestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Charles L. Boulenger
Charles L. Boulenger
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(From the Research Laboratory in Agricultural Zoology, University of Birmingham.)
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1. The eggs of Nematodirus filicollis when laid contain an embryo with seven or eight cells, they pass out of the infested host with the faeces.

2. Even under favourable conditions development takes place slowly and the embryos are not ready to hatch until 24–28 days have elapsed. In their early stages the embryos are not able to withstand desiccation and are killed if frozen or subjected to high temperatures.

3. Whilst still within the egg-shell the embryo undergoes two ecdyses and when ready to hatch is enclosed in a tightly fitting sheath formed by the incompletely cast skin of the second moult; the larvae on liberation from the egg-shell are therefore in a more advanced condition than those of most other Strongylids (e.g. Haemonchus or Anchylostoma) and are in a stage comparable with that reached by the latter at the end of their period of free existence.

4. The sheathed larvae are often retained for a long time within the egg-shells and both in this position and after hatching can resist complete desiccation for considerable periods (twenty months or even longer); when dried they are able to withstand freezing as well as temperatures much above those likely to be met with in the open.

5. The free larvae will live for a considerable time in water, they possess well-developed migratory instincts and climb vertical surfaces, such as grass stems and blades, and the glass walls of the vessels in which they are kept.

6. The sheaths are cast off by the larvae when these are subjected to temperatures approximating to the blood-temperature of the host; completion of the second moult occasionally also takes place at laboratory temperatures under certain abnormal conditions.

7. No infection experiments were made on sheep, but other evidence shows that these animals must become infected by swallowing the sheathed larvae, either when free or whilst still enclosed in the eggshells.

8. A number of young stages of the parasite were met with in the intestines of sheep, the smallest of these being only little more advanced in structure than the larvae just after ecdysis.

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Parasitology , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , September 1915 , pp. 133 - 155
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1915

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