Evolutionary Tendencies Parasitic Copepods of Fish

Volume 2 - Issue 1

Kazachenko VN*

Received: July 16, 2018;   Published: July 23, 2018

DOI: 10.32474/MAOPS.2018.02.000127

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Abstract

Parasitic copepods inhabit invertebrates and vertebrate’s animals. They have changed under the influence of parasitic life. Changes affected the body form, the reduction of segments and limbs. They have neoplasms (horns, tree-like processes, bullae, suckers, lamellar lobes, etc.).

Keywords: Parasitic Copepods; Evolution; Invertebrates; Vertebrates; Oligomerization; Plesiomorphic; Apomorphic; Appendages

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