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P. D. Olson

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h-index: 32
Works: 82
Citations: 5,589

Most-cited papers

Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda).
P. D. Olson, T. Cribb, Vasyl V. Tkach, R. A. Bray +1 more
2003International Journal of Parasitology940 citations
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The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism
I. J. Tsai, M. Zarowiecki, N. Holroyd, A. Garcíarrubio +48 more
2013Nature652 citations Open access
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Comparative genomics of the major parasitic worms
Avril Coghlan, Rahul Tyagi, J. Cotton, N. Holroyd +83 more
2017Nature Genetics465 citations Open access
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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Microphalloidea Ward, 1901 (Trematoda: Digenea)
V. Tkach, D. T. J. Littlewood, P. D. Olson, J. Kinsella +1 more
2003Systematic Parasitology435 citations
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Utility of complete large and small subunit rRNA genes in resolving the phylogeny of the Neodermata (Platyhelminthes): implications and a review of the cercomer theory
A. Lockyer, P. D. Olson, D. T. Littlewood
2003360 citations
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Interrelationships and evolution of the tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda).
P. D. Olson, D. Littlewood, R. Bray, Jean Mariaux
2001Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution290 citations
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Life cycle evolution in the digenea: a new perspective from phylogeny.
T. Cribb, R. Bray, P. D. Olson, D. Littlewood
2003Advances in Parasitology215 citations Open access
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Advances and trends in the molecular systematics of the parasitic Platyhelminthes.
P. D. Olson, V. Tkach
2005Advances in Parasitology174 citations
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Extraordinary host switching in siphonostomatoid copepods and the demise of the Monstrilloida: integrating molecular data, ontogeny and antennulary morphology.
R. Huys, J. Llewellyn-Hughes, S. Conroy-Dalton, P. D. Olson +2 more
2007Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution136 citations
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Evolution of the trypanorhynch tapeworms: parasite phylogeny supports independent lineages of sharks and rays.
P. D. Olson, J. Caira, K. Jensen, R. Overstreet +2 more
2010International Journal of Parasitology126 citations
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Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Trypanorhyncha Diesing, 1863 (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda).
H. Palm, A. Waeschenbach, P. D. Olson, D. T. J. Littlewood
2009Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution121 citations
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Evolution of the major lineages of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoidea) inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA and elongation factor-1alpha.
P. D. Olson, J. Caira
1999Journal of Parasitology109 citations
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Small subunit rDNA and Bayesian inference reveal Pectenophilus ornatus (Copepoda incertae sedis ) as highly transformed Mytilicolidae, and support assignment of Chondracanthidae and Xarifiidae to Lichomolgoidea (Cyclopoida)
R. Huys, J. Llewellyn-Hughes, P. D. Olson, K. Nagasawa
200695 citations Open access
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Malignant Transformation of Hymenolepis nana in a Human Host.
A. Muehlenbachs, J. Bhatnagar, C. Agudelo, Alicia Hidrón +14 more
2015New England Journal of Medicine86 citations Open access
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Morphological and molecular differentiation between Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Rudolphi, 1819) and Dicrocoelium chinensis (Sudarikov and Ryjikov, 1951) Tang and Tang, 1978 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea).
D. Otranto, S. Rehbein, S. Weigl, C. Cantacessi +3 more
2007Acta Tropica73 citations Open access
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Description of Hymenolepis microstoma (Nottingham strain): a classical tapeworm model for research in the genomic era
Lucas J. Cunningham, P. D. Olson
2010Parasites & Vectors64 citations Open access
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Substitution saturation and nuclear paralogs of commonly employed phylogenetic markers in the Caryophyllidea, an unusual group of non-segmented tapeworms (Platyhelminthes).
J. Brabec, T. Scholz, I. Králová-Hromadová, E. Bazsalovicsová +1 more
2012International Journal of Parasitology63 citations
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Wnt gene loss in flatworms
N. Riddiford, P. D. Olson
2011Development, Genes and Evolution63 citations
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On the Position of Archigetes and Its Bearing on the Early Evolution of the Tapeworms
P. D. Olson, L. Poddubnaya, D. T. Littlewood, Tomá š Scholz
2008Journal of Parasitology61 citations
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Life cycles, molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the ‘pygmaeus’ microphallids (Digenea: Microphallidae): widespread parasites of marine and coastal birds in the Holarctic
K. Galaktionov, I. Blasco-Costa, P. D. Olson
2012Parasitology58 citations
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Interrelationships of the Haploporinae (Digenea: Haploporidae): a molecular test of the taxonomic framework based on morphology.
I. Blasco-Costa, J. Balbuena, A. Kostadinova, P. D. Olson
2009Parasitology international58 citations
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Insight into the role of cetaceans in the life cycle of the tetraphyllideans (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda).
F. Aznar, C. Agustí, D. T. Littlewood, J. Raga +1 more
2007International Journal of Parasitology56 citations
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Comparative analysis of Wnt expression identifies a highly conserved developmental transition in flatworms
U. Koziol, Francesca Jarero, P. D. Olson, K. Brehm
2016BMC Biology54 citations Open access
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Molecular and morphological circumscription of Mesocestoides tapeworms from red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in central Europe
G. Hrčková, M. Miterpáková, A. O'Connor, V. Šnábel +1 more
2011Parasitology54 citations
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Lethal invasive cestodiasis in immunosuppressed patients.
P. D. Olson, K. Yoder, Luis F. Fajardo L.-G., A. M. Marty +3 more
2003Journal of Infectious Diseases52 citations
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Molecular phylogeny of gill monogeneans (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) and colonization of Indo‐West Pacific butterflyfish hosts (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae)
L. Plaisance, D. T. Littlewood, P. D. Olson, S. Morand
200550 citations
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Parasites of Loligo gahi from waters off the Falkland Islands, with a phylogenetically based identification of their cestode larvae
P. Brickle, P. D. Olson, D. Littlewood, A. Bishop +1 more
200148 citations
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Independent host switching events by digenean parasites of cetaceans inferred from ribosomal DNA.
N. Fraija-Fernández, P. D. Olson, E. Crespo, J. Raga +2 more
2015International Journal of Parasitology47 citations
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Genome-wide transcriptome profiling and spatial expression analyses identify signals and switches of development in tapeworms
P. D. Olson, M. Zarowiecki, Katherine James, Andrew Baillie +7 more
2018EvoDevo41 citations Open access
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Molecules and morphology reveal cryptic variation among digeneans infecting sympatric mullets in the Mediterranean
I. Blasco-Costa, J. Balbuena, J. Raga, A. Kostadinova +1 more
2009Parasitology40 citations
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Elongation factor 1-alpha sequences alone do not assist in resolving the position of the acoela within the metazoa.
D. T. Littlewood, P. D. Olson, Maximilian J. Telford, E. Herniou +1 more
2001Molecular biology and evolution37 citations Open access
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Caryophyllidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) from freshwater fishes in Japan.
Tomáš Scholz, T. Shimazu, P. D. Olson, K. Nagasawa
2001Folia Parasitologica36 citations Open access
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Complete representation of a tapeworm genome reveals chromosomes capped by centromeres, necessitating a dual role in segregation and protection
P. D. Olson, A. Tracey, Andrew Baillie, Katherine James +5 more
2020BMC Biology32 citations Open access
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Vitellocyte ultrastructure in the cestode Didymobothrium rudolphii (Monticelli, 1890): possible evidence for the recognition of divergent taxa within the Spathebothriidea
L. Poddubnaya, D. Gibson, Z. Świderski, P. D. Olson
2006Acta Parasitologica32 citations Open access
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Evidence for host-specific clades of tetraphyllidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) revealed by analysis of 18S ssrDNA.
P. D. Olson, T. Ruhnke, J. Sanney, T. Hudson
1999International Journal of Parasitology32 citations
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Evidence for the co-existence of separate strains or species of Ligula in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland
P. D. Olson, D. T. Littlewood, David Griffiths, C. Kennedy +1 more
2002Journal of Helminthology30 citations
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Platyhelminth phylogenetics - a key to understanding parasitism?
D. T. Littlewood, T. Cribb, P. D. Olson, R. Bray
200130 citations
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Mesocestoides litteratus (Batsch, 1786) (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Mesocestoididae) from the red fox: Morphological and 18S rDNA characterization of European isolates
I. Literák, F. Tenora, V. Letková, M. Goldová +2 more
2006Helminthologia26 citations Open access
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Cryptic species of Didymobothrium rudolphii (Cestoda: Spathebothriidea) from the sand sole, Solea lascaris, off the Portuguese coast, with an analysis of their molecules, morphology, ultrastructure and phylogeny
J. Marques, Maria João Santos, David I. Gibson, H. Cabral +1 more
2007Parasitology25 citations Open access
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Australian spiny mountain crayfish and their temnocephalan ectosymbionts: an ancient association on the edge of coextinction?
Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill, K. Sewell, L. Cannon, M. Charleston +4 more
2016Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences23 citations Open access
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RNA-mediated gene suppression and in vitro culture in Hymenolepis microstoma.
Natalia N. Pouchkina-Stantcheva, Lucas J. Cunningham, G. Hrčková, P. D. Olson
2013International Journal of Parasitology23 citations
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First record of metacestodes of Mesocestoides sp. in the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in Europe, with an 18S rDNA characterisation of the isolate.
I. Literák, P. D. Olson, B. Georgiev, M. Špakulová
2004Folia Parasitologica21 citations Open access
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Phylogenomics of Nematoda
M. Blaxter, G. Koutsovoulos, Martin Jones, Sujai Kumar +4 more
201620 citations
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Identification and expression profiling of microRNAs in Hymenolepis.
N. Macchiaroli, M. Cucher, L. Kamenetzky, C. Yones +4 more
2019International Journal of Parasitology17 citations Open access
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Ultrastructure of the ovary, ovicapt and oviduct of the spathebothriidean tapeworm Didymobothrium rudolphii (Monticelli, 1890)
L. Poddubnaya, D. Gibson, P. D. Olson
2007Acta Parasitologica17 citations Open access
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The plerocercus of Ditrachybothridium macrocephalum Rees, 1959 from two deep-sea elasmobranchs, with a molecular analysis of its position within the order Diphyllidea and a checklist of the hosts of larval diphyllideans
R. Bray, P. D. Olson
2004Systematic Parasitology16 citations
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Spathebothriidea: survey of species, scolex and egg morphology, and interrelationships of a non-segmented, relictual tapeworm group (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda).
R. Kuchta, Rebecca Pearson, T. Scholz, O. Ditrich +1 more
2014Folia Parasitologica13 citations Open access
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Comparison of Leptorhynchoides thecatus (Acanthocephala) recruitment into green sunfish and largemouth bass populations.
P. D. Olson, B. Nickol
1996Journal of Parasitology13 citations Open access
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The Temnocephalidae (Platyhelminthes): molecular data illuminate the evolution of an ancient group of symbiotic flatworms
D. Blair, L. Cannon, D. Littlewood, P. D. Olson +1 more
2023Systematics and Biodiversity7 citations
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The tapeworm interactome: inferring confidence scored protein-protein interactions from the proteome of Hymenolepis microstoma
Katherine James, P. D. Olson
2019BMC Genomics7 citations Open access
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