Call for papers: Helminths and their molluscan hosts: updates and remaining challenges

From its beginnings now over 100 years ago, JH has been at the forefront in publishing original research and timely reviews on all aspects of the biology of helminths, with a new focus now on only parasitic helminths. In an effort to sustain the journal’s proud tradition and to engage new readers and contributors, the editorial board has encouraged the organization and submission of collections of papers (emphasizing reviews) devoted to a unifying theme.

Along with your own contribution, other topics that might be included (awaiting confirmations from other invitees) in this collection would be overviews/reviews of the phyum Mollusca and its involvement in helminth transmission, specificity of such associations, intra-molluscan biology of digeneans, helminth-mediated parasitic castration of molluscs, cercariae as evolutionary innovations, immunobiology of mollusc-helminth associations, applications of genomics/omics to such associations, nematode parasites of molluscs, emerging mollusc-dependent helminths, why such associations matter from public health perspectives, and aspects of conservation biology/museum curation of helminths in molluscs. Other germane topics would also certainly be considered. 

We will still require special collection papers to go through our standard peer review process, but will fast-track these papers.

We aim to have most submissions by 31^st October 2024, but this collection will open with the first papers accepted, so your paper will not be held back from others. 

Please do direct any questions to alison.paskins@cambridge.org. 

Guest Editor: Eric Loker