Sarah A. Orlofske, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point

Edited For Use in BIOL 362 Animal Parasitology

Summer 2025

Authors of Original Material: Lucrecia Acosta Soto • • Berenice Adán-Torres • Brenda Atziri García-García • Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti • Matthew G. Bolek • Daniel R. Brooks • Rocío Callejón Fernández • Sarah R. Catalano • Anindo Choudhury • Thomas H. Cribb • Scott C. Cutmore • Filipe Dantas-Torres • Donald W. Duszynski • Jorge Falcón-Ordaz • Bernard Fried • Spencer C. Galen • Sumiya Ganzorig • Luis García-Prieto • Scott L. Gardner • Sue Ann Gardner • Kyle D. Gustafson • Ben Hanelt • David Iván Hernández-Mena • Daniel C. Huston • Fábián Ibolya • Akira Ito • John J. Janovy, Jr. • Ana Maria Jansen • F. Agustín Jiménez-Ruiz • Roman Kuchta • Sebastian Kvist • Omar Lagunas-Calvo • Gabriel J. Langford • Marcela Lareschi • Virginia León-Règagnon • Jeffrey M. Lotz • Marco Marozzi • Storm B. Martin • Chris T. McAllister • Mary Ann McDowell • Terrence L. Miller • Scott Monks • Juliana Notarnicola • Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa • Valeria Castilho Onofrio • Robin M. Overstreet • Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León • Susan L. Perkins • A. Townsend Peterson • Griselda Pulido-Flores • Valentin Radev • Jenő Reiczigel • Jennifer Robichaud • María del Rosario Robles • Klaus Rohde • André Luiz Rodrigues Roque • Lajos Rózsa • Tomáš Scholz • Brenda Solórzano-García • Rafael Toledo • Haylee J. Weaver • Nicholas Q.-X. Wee • Megan Wise de Valdez • Samanta C. Chagas Xavier • Willi E. R. Xylander • Russell Q.-Y. Yong • Francisco Zaragoza-Tapia

Authors from Open Access Sources: Carla Nunes Araújo • Izabela Marques Dourado Bastos • Kaio Luís da Silva Bentes • Morgan A. Byron • John L. Capinera • Carlos Roberto Ceron • John J. Janovy, Jr. • Gerald W. Krantz • Evert E. Lindquist • Jaime Martins de Santana • Flávia Nader Motta • Steven Nadler • Yanna Reis Praça • Larry S. Roberts • Paula Beatriz Santiago • Christopher J. Schofield • Gabriel dos Santos Silva • Sofia Marcelino Martins Silva • Ester Tartarotti • Caroline Barreto Vieira • Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira • David Evans Walter

Content Reviewers: Michael A. Barger • Lance A. Durden • Scott L. Gardner • Alberto A. Guglielmone • Sherman S. Hendrix • Jana Kvičerová • Janice Moore • Ana Rivero • Christopher M. Whipps

Zea Books ISBN 978-1-60962-306-7 Lincoln, Nebraska doi:10.32873/ciap070

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Suggestion Book Citation

Gardner, S. L., and S. A. Gardner, eds. 2024. Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.ciap070

Suggested Chapter Citation

Catalano, S. R. 2024. Mesozoans (Phylum Dicyemida and Phylum Orthonectida).
In S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner, eds. Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.ciap014

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