Taxonomic rank of human parasites
10.16250/j.32.1374.2021202
- VernacularTitle:人体寄生虫的分类阶元
- Author:
Tie-wu JIA
1
,
2
;
Wei WANG
2
,
3
;
Yi-biao ZHOU
4
;
Jie ZHOU
5
;
Zhong-qiu MEI
1
;
Shi-zhu LI
1
Author Information
1. National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research), National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Shanghai 200025, China
2. Co-first authors
3. National Health Commission Key Laboratory on Parasitic Disease Prevention and Control, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasites and Vector Control Technology, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214064, China
4. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Tropical Disease Research Center, China
5. Hunan Provincial Institute of Schistosomiasis Control, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Human parasite;
Protozoa;
Trematoda;
Cestoda;
Nematoda;
Taxonomic rank
- From:
Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control
2022;34(4):420-428
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Biological category is effective to indicate the evolution of organism populations between past and present. Conventional taxonomy of human parasites mainly depends on important morphological features, which suffers from a problem of categorizing related-genera species with similar morphological characteristics. With recent advances in molecular biological technologies, the effective applications of mitochondrial and ribosomal biomarkers and sequencing greatly improve the development of the taxonomic rank of human parasites. Worldwide, the classification of human parasites have been continuously revised and improved. Hereby, we re-categorize parasitic Protozoa, Trematoda, Cestoda and Nematoda, so as to provide insights into the researches on molecular systematics and genetic evolution of human parasites.
