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ScopeMANTER: Journal of Parasite Biodiversity (ISSN 2470-8224) is published occasionally by the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum, in collaboration with the Digital Commons of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The journal publishes open-access articles on biodiversity of parasites with primary focus on geographic areas of the Holarctic and Neotropical regions. All areas of investigation in biodiversity of parasites are welcome.
Taxonomic Names
Names used in the journal will follow guidelines and rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Authors proposing new names are required to register the names with ZooBank and include the names and the ZooBank accession numbers in the manuscript after acceptance of the manuscript by the Editor. The preservation archive of record is the Internet Archive.
Publication Details
Frequency: Occasional
Format: Online
Languages accepted: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French
Review details: Peer-reviewed
On the occasion when papers have not gone through the peer review process, they will be flagged as such on the cover page of the article. All articles undergo either peer review or editor review.
Charges: There are no subscription fees and no article processing charges
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license
Indexing: Indexed automatically by Google and Google Scholar
ICZN database of record: Internet Archive
Plan S: Articles may be made Plan S-compliant upon request
Founded in 2015
Submission Guidelines
Send manuscripts to Scott Gardner via E-mail.
There is no set page limit, and no limit on the number of figures or tables.
Color images are acceptable.
Editorial Board
Walter Boeger, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Daniel Brooks, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, USA
Donald Duszynski, University of New Mexico, USA
Scott Lyell Gardner, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, USA (Editor)
Eric Hoberg, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, USA , USA
F. Agustín Jiménez-Ruiz, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
Marcela Lareschi, Investigador Responsable Laboratorio de Ectoparásitos, CEPAVE (CONICET-UNLP), Argentina
W. Scott Monks, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, México
Luís Muniz-Pereira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Juliana Notarnicola, Instituto de Biología Subtropical -IBS, CCT Nordeste- CONICET-UNaM, Argentina
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Griselda Pulido-Flores, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, México
Gabor Rácz, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, USA
Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Texas Tech University, USA
Robert Scott Seville, University of Wyoming, Casper, USA
John Ubelaker, Emeritus, Southern Methodist University, USA
Current and Founding Editor
Scott Lyell Gardner, Ph.D.
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology
W529 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0514 USA
slg at unl dot edu
+1-402-472-3334
MANTER: Journal of Parasite Biodiversity
2023
Helminth Parasites of the Giant Toad, Rhinella horribilis (Wiegmann, 1833) (Anura: Bufonidae) from Central Mexico, Jorge Falcón-Ordaz, Cristian Raúl Olvera-Olvera, Marisol Moreno-Chávez, Griselda Pulido-Flores, Scott Monks, and Luis García-Prieto
Resolution of the Tetrabothrius jagerskioeldi Cryptic Species Complex among Holarctic Alcidae (Charadriiformes): Cestodes among Fraterculinae—Exploring Marine Diversity, Host Range, and Dynamic Oceanography in the Greater North Pacific, Eric P. Hoberg, Kaylen Marie Soudachanh, and Svetlana K. Bondarenko
D-shaped Nematode Eggs in the Feces of Rangifer tarandus: A Story in Pictures, Olga A. Loginova
A Diverse Flea (Siphonaptera) Assemblage from the Small Mammals of Central New Mexico, Dianne E. Peterson, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Schuyler W. Liphart, Karen A. Boegler, Ralph P. Eckerlin, Eric P. Hoberg, Martha O. Perez-Arriaga, Katrina Derieg, David Garnand, Mariel L. Campbell, and Joseph A. Cook
2022
The Stockholm Paradigm Explains the Dynamics of Darwin’s Entangled Bank, Including Emerging Infectious Disease, Salvatore J. Agosta
Review of the Cloacininae Stossich (Nemata: Strongyloidea) from Australasian Marsupials (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea), Ian Beveridge and Lesley R. Smales
The Stockholm Paradigm: Lessons for the Emerging Infectious Disease Crisis, Daniel R. Brooks, Walter A. Boeger, and Eric P. Hoberg
Stepping-stones and Mediators of Pandemic Expansion: A Context for Humans as Ecological Super-spreaders, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, Daniel R. Brooks, Valeria Trivellone, and Salvatore J. Agosta
The DAMA Protocol, an Introduction: Finding Pathogens before They Find Us, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, Orsolya Molnár, Gábor Földvári, Scott Gardner, Alicia Juarrero, Vitaliy A. Kharchenko, Eloy Ortiz, Wolfgang Preiser, Valeria Trivellone, and Daniel R. Brooks
Knowing the Biosphere: Documentation, Specimens, Archives, and Names Reveal Environmental Change and Emerging Pathogens, Eric P. Hoberg, Valeria Trivellone, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Walter A. Boeger, Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta, and Jocelyn P. Colella
The 3P Framework: A Comprehensive Approach to Coping with the Emerging Infectious Disease Crisis, Orsolya Molnár, Eric Hoberg, Valeria Trivellone, Gábor Földvári, and Daniel R. Brooks
Taking Action: Turning Evolutionary Theory into Preventive Policies, Orsolya Molnár, Marina Knickel, and Christine Marizzi
An Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance Platform for the 21st Century, Eloy Ortiz and Alicia Juarrero
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases on an Unstable Planet: Insights from Modeling the Stockholm Paradigm, Angie T.C. Souza, Sabrina B.L. Araujo, and Walter A. Boeger
Let Emerging Plant Diseases Be Predictable, Valeria Trivellone
A Field Synopsis, Systematic Review, and Meta-analyses of Cophylogenetic Studies: What Is Affecting Congruence between Phylogenies?, Valeria Trivellone and Bernd Panassiti
A Checklist of Parasites of Peromyscus maniculatus in North America, John Ubelaker and Gábor R. Rácz
2021
A Guide to Helminth Parasites Reported from Shorebirds (Charadriidae) from the Americas, Albert G. Canaris, Sofia Capasso, and Gay J. Canaris
Natterer in Neotropical Nematoda: Species Described by Rudolphi, Diesing, and Molin, Ricardo Guerrero
Diversity of Tetrabothriidae (Eucestoda) among Holarctic Alcidae (Charadriiformes): Resolution of the Tetrabothrius jagerskioeldi Cryptic Species Complex: Cestodes of Alcinae—Provides Insights on the Dynamic Nature of Tapeworm and Marine Bird Faunas under the Stockholm Paradigm, Eric P. Hoberg and Kaylen Marie Soudachanh
2020
Steganoderma Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Zoogonidae: Lepidophyllinae) from Two Species of Rockfishes from Deep Waters off Oregon Including a New Species and an Updated Key to Species of This Genus, Charles K. Blend and Gábor R. Rácz
The Enigmatic Spelaeorhynchidae Oudemans, 1902 (Acari: Mesostigmata) Blood-Feeding Ectoparasites Infesting Neotropical Bats, with Catalog and Notes on a Collection from the Manú Biosphere Reserve in Peru, Donald Gettinger, Madalyne Epperson, Candy Hermasillo, and Scott Gardner
Insights about Diversity of Tetrabothriidae (Eucestoda) among Holarctic Alcidae (Charadriiformes): What Is Tetrabothrius jagerskioeldi?, Eric P. Hoberg and Kaylen Marie Soudachanh
2018
Checklist of Bloodfeeding Mites (Acari: Spinturnicidae) from the Wings of Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the Manú Biosphere Reserve, Peru, Donald D. Gettinger
Acarine Biodiversity in Ecuador: Two New Species of Endoparasitic Chiggers (Acarina: Trombiculidae) from Terrestrial Andean Anurans, Ricardo Guerrero and Mario Humberto Yánez-Muñoz
2017
Checklist of Helminths of Bats from Mexico and Central America, F. Agustín Jiménez, Juan M. Caspeta-Mandujano, Said B. Ramírez-Chávez, Silvia E. Ramírez-Díaz, Marissa G. Juárez-Urbina, Jorge L. Peralta-Rodríguez, and José A. Guerrero
2016
Viral Zoonoses That Fly with Bats: A Review, Alfonso Calderon, Camilo Guzman, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Luiz Tadeu Figueiredo, Salim Mattar, and German Arrieta
Laelapine Mite (Acari: Laelapidae) Morphometric Analysis Reflects Taxonomic and Geographic Clusters of South American Oryzomyines (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae), Donald D. Gettinger and Robert D. Owen
Bibliography to Current Knowledge of Studies of Pathogens in Colombian Mammals, Viviana Gonzalez-Astudillo, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Joerg Henning, and Thomas R. Gillespie
Current Knowledge of Studies of Pathogens in Colombian Mammals, Viviana Gonzalez-Astudillo, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Joerg Henning, and Thomas R. Gillespie
The Importance of Mammalogy, Infectious Disease Research, and Biosafety in the Field, Matthew R. Mauldin, Jeffrey B. Doty, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Ginny L. Emerson, and Darin S. Carroll
Population Characteristics of Human-Commensal Rodents Present in Households from Mérida, Yucatán, México, Jesús Alonso Panti-May, Silvia F. Hernández-Betancourt, Marco A. Torres-Castro, Carlos Machaín-Williams, Nohemi Cigarroa-Toledo, Lorenzo Sodá, Gabriela López-Manzanero, Josué R. Meza-Sulú, and Victor M. Vidal-Martínez
2015
Metazoan Endoparasites of the Gray Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus from New Mexico, John E. Ubelaker, Bretton S. Griffin, Genevieve M. Konicke, Nora Abdullah, Aya Mouhaffel, Donald Duszynski, and Robert L. Harrison