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Pomphorhynchus laevis is an endo-parasitic acanthocephalan worm, with a complex life cycle, that can modify the behaviour of its intermediate host, the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex [1]. P. laevis does not contain a digestive tract and relies on the nutrients provided by its host species. In the fish host this can lead to the accumulation of lead in P. laevis by feeding on the bile of the host species

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Taxonomy ID 141832

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Taxonomy ID 141832

Data source Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iomE), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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