participates in Schistosoma japonicum adult female worm stage Schistosoma japonicum adult worm Schistosoma japonicum adult female worm S. japonicum adult female worm Jie Zheng Chris Stoeckert A Schistosoma japonicum adult worm is a fully developed mature female form of Schistosoma japonicum and capable of sexual reproduction, which lives within the gynacophoric canal of the adult male worm in the small superior mesenteric blood vessels associated with the ileo-caecal area of the intestine of the mammal host. Priti Parikh