Parasites & Vectors - Latest Comments

Avoiding conflict of interests

Chris Arme — 2010-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frank Cox, the author of this article, is also editor of the Thematic Series 'Historical Aspects of Parasitology'. Because of any possible conflicts of interest, this contribution was edited by Chris Arme, Editor-in-Chief of Parasites & Vectors.

Inclusion in Thematic Series

Chris Arme — 2010-01-14T00:00:00Z

This article was published prior to the launch of the Thematic Series entitled 'Historical Aspects of Parasitology', edited by Frank Cox. With the agreement of the author, this thematic series editor, the editor of Parasites and Vectors and the publishers, it was considered appropriate to link this article into the series.

validation of scientific names proposed here

George Poinar — 2008-12-16T00:00:00Z

In accordance with section 8.6 of the ICZN's International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, we have deposited copies of this article at the following five publicly accessible libraries: Natural History Museum, London, UK; American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Correction

Chris Arme — 2008-10-06T00:00:00Z

Corrections to this article have been published in Parasites & Vectors 2008, 1:37

Fossilized digenetic kinetoplastids

Kevin Tyler — 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z

A really impressive and interesting paper. I simply hadn't realized that the degree of resolution necessary to distiguish putative life-cycle stages of protozoan parasites was possible from 100 million year old fossilized vectors.