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Adaptations
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on ectopic Moniliformis moniliformis. 83rd Annual Meeting
of the Kentucky Academy of Science, November 13-15, 1997 (Morehead
State University, Morehead, KY). (*--presenter)
- Oetinger*, D. F., R. Bassett, S. Estes, and A. M. Stergiou.
1997. Interaction between rat greater omentum and intraperitoneal
Moniliformis moniliformis. 72nd Annual Meetings,
American Society of Parastiologists, 24-28 June, 1997 (Nashville,
TN)
- Bassett*, Randy and D. F.
Oetinger. 1996. Interactions between rats and intraperitoneally-implanted
Moniliformis moniliformis. Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, 24-26 April, 1996 (Hancock Biological Station,
Murray State University, Kentucky Lake). (*--presenter)
- Oetinger, D. F. 1995. Ectopic
Moniliformis moniliformis
from a laboratory-infected rat (Rattus norvegicus).
Helminthological Society of Washington 62(1): 98-102.
- Oetinger, D. F. 1993. Ectopic Moniliformis moniliformis
in its usual definitive host, Rattus norvegicus. Joint
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene and the American Society of Parasitologists, Atlanta,
GA, 31 October-04 November, 1993.
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Granulomatous reaction of rat greater omentum
to eggs from ectopic
female Moniliformis moniliformis (May-Grunwald stain)
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- Oetinger, D. F. and R. L. Buckner. 1993. Morphology of the
genital vestibule of Neoechinorhynchus carinatus (Acanthocephala:Neoechinorhynchidae) J. Parasitol. 79(6): 930-934.
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Neoechinorhynchus carinatus female with copulatory cap |
- Oetinger, D. F. 1997. Altered protein composition of Lirceus
lineatus (Isopoda) infected by Acanthocephalus dirus.
83rd Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science, November
13-15, 1997 (Morehead State University, Morehead, KY).
- Oetinger, D. F. 1996. Pigments and proteins from uninfected
and Acanthocephalus dirus-infected Lirceus lineatus
(Isopoda), from Daviess County, Kentucky. Southeastern Society
of Parasitologists, 24-26 April, 1996 (Hancock Biological Station,
Murray State University, Kentucky Lake).
- Oetinger, D. F. 1995. Effects of Acanthocephalus dirus
on pigments and proteins of Lirceus lineatus. Kentucky
Academy of Sciences, 17-18 November, 1996 (Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY).
- Oetinger, D. F. 1995. Altered integumental pigmentation of
the freshwater isopod, Lirceus lineatus. Joint Meeting
of the Southeastern Division of the American Microscopical Society
and the Association of Southeastern Biologists, 19-21 April,
1995 (Knoxville, TN).
- Oetinger, D. F. 1990. Effects of Acanthocephalus dirus
on pigmentation of Lirceus lineatus. VIIth International
Congress of Parasitology, 20-24 August, 1990 (Paris, France). Oetinger, D. F. 1987. Effects of
Acanthocephalus dirus
(Acanthocephala) on morphometrics and reproduction of Caecidotea
intermedius(Crustacea: Isopoda). Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc.
106: 240-248.
- Oetinger, D. F. and B. B. Nickol. 1982. Developmental relationships
between acanthocephalans and altered pigmentation in freshwater
isopods. J. Parasitol. 68: 463-469.
- Oetinger, D. F. and B. B. Nickol. 1982. Spectrophotometric
characterization of integumental pigments from uninfected and
Acanthocephalus dirus -infected Asellus intermedius.
J. Parasitol. 68: 270-275.
- Oetinger, D. F. and B. B. Nickol. 1981. Effects of acanthocephalans
on pigmentation of freshwater isopods. J. Parasitol. 67: 672-684.
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Acanthocephalus dirus -infected (left) and uninfected Lirceus lineatus
from Jackson Cutoff near Bowling Green, Ohio.

TEM of Lirceus lineatus integumental
pigment cell |
- Oetinger, D. F. and J. Essepian. 1990. Structural and functional
relationships of proboscis hooks of the Archiacanthocephalan, Moniliformis moniliformis (Bremser, 1811). Annual Meetings
of the American Microscopical Society, 26-30 December, 1990 (San
Antonio, Texas).
- Hutton, T. L. and D. F. Oetinger. 1980. Morphogenesis of
the proboscis hooks of an archiacanthocephalan, Moniliformis
moniliformis (Bremser 1811) Travassos 1915. J. Parasitol.
66: 965-972.
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TEMs of developing Moniliformis moniliformis hooks |

Toluidine blue-stained thick section showing continued connective tissue
connection of M. moniliformis hook bases |
- Oetinger, D. F. 1991. Growth of the acanthocephalan, Moniliformis
moniliformis (Bremser, 1811) Travassos, 1915 in the laboratory rat.
Kentucky Academy of Sciences, 7-9 November, 1991 (Owensboro, KY)
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- Oetinger, D. F. and R. L. Buckner. 1976. Acanthocephalus
tahlequahensis sp. n. (Acanthocephala,Echinorhynchidae)
from the stippled darter, Etheostoma punctulatum (Agassiz)
in northeastern Oklahoma. J. Parasitol. 62: 237-241.
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Negative image of camera lucida drawing
of holotype male Acanthocephalus tahlequahensis by Dr. Richard L.
Buckner |
- Oetinger, D. F. and B. B. Nickol. 1974. A possible function
of the fibrillar coat in Acanthocephalus jacksoni eggs.
J. Parasitol. 60: 1055-1056.
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Light micrograph composite of eggs of Acanthocephalus
dirus showing filaments within an egg (2), being release from an egg
(3), completely released from an egg (4) and entangling eggs with fecal
debris (1) |
- Nickol, B. B. and D. F. Oetinger. 1968. Prosthorhynchus
formosus from the short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda)
in New York State. J. Parasitol. 54: 456.
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