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Preputial Gland as a Site of Nematode Parasitism

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THE number of sites of nematode infection recorded in both plants and animals is already great, and in mammalian hosts, at least, most parts of the body providing a moist, well vascularized medium and ready access to the body surface have been identified with nematode parasitism. This communication reports nematode invasion of the preputial gland of a south-eastern Australian murid rodent.

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  1. J. MARY TAYLOR

    Present address: Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

    J. MARY TAYLOR & PHYLLIS A. PHELPS

  2. Department of Zoology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

    B. ELIZABETH HORNER

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TAYLOR, J., PHELPS, P. & HORNER, B. Preputial Gland as a Site of Nematode Parasitism. Nature 212, 735–736 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212735a0

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