Fraction of sex-inducing substances facilitates growth and body shape change in a Fasciola hepatica/gigantica hybrid: A novel in vitro research platform for studying liver-stage juveniles derived from mice

• Sasaya Ohno,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Chihiro Kitajima,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Kiyono Sekii,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Riku Ito,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

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• Akitoshi Yoshikawa,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

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• Shotaro Wakahara,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

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• Kimitoshi Sakamoto,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

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• Yukita Sato,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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• Kazuya Kobayashi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

  * E-mail: madoka@iwate-u.ac.jp (MI-S), kobkyram@hirosaki-u.ac.jp (KK)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

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• Madoka Ichikawa-Seki

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: madoka@iwate-u.ac.jp (MI-S), kobkyram@hirosaki-u.ac.jp (KK)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3547-0163

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