Once it reaches the final site, the larva transforms into a sporocyst, which is little more than an amorphous, germinal sac. |
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Within the sporocyst, a special form of asexual reproduction, known as polyembryony, then occurs. |
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Second, it can encyst inside a daughter sporocyst as a metacercariae, be voided with the sporocyst, and then be consumed by the benthic-feeding definitive host, rosyside dace. |
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Using histochemical and cytophotometric methods, enzymes responsible for the membrane transport in the developing sporocyst of Fasciola hepatica were studied. |
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Within the snail, the miracidium transforms into a sporocyst, which divides and eventually produces thousands of cercariae. |
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Byrd described a new species of digene from larval metacercariae developing in a mother sporocyst found in a tentacle of the terrestrial snail Succinea retusa. |
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