A novel myxozoan parasite of terrestrial mammals: description of Soricimyxum minuti sp. n. (Myxosporea) in pygmy shrew Sorex minutus from Hungary

Title:

A novel myxozoan parasite of terrestrial mammals: description of Soricimyxum minuti sp. n. (Myxosporea) in pygmy shrew Sorex minutus from Hungary

Creator:

Székely, Csaba, Cech, Gábor, Atkinson, Stephen D, Kálmán Molnár, Egyed, László, and Gubányi, András

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:00d6ee77-6c18-4406-96b6-ed4bfb0726df
uuid:00d6ee77-6c18-4406-96b6-ed4bfb0726df
issn:1803-6465
doi:10.14411/fp.2015.045

Subject:

žlučové cesty, játra, biliary ducts, liver, Maďarsko, Hungary, Myxozoa, Soricimyxum spp., bile ducts, mammalian hosts, Sorex spp., 2, and 59

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

electronic, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

As part of a biodiversity study in northwestern Hungary, we conducted a parasitological survey of small mammals. In both common shrews (Sorex araneus Linnaeus) and pygmy shrews (Sorex minutus Linnaeus), we found myxospores of a species of Soricimyxum Prunescu, Prunescu, Pucek et Lom, 2007 (Myxosporea) and plasmodia in the bile ducts within the liver. Spores from both species of shrewswere morphologically and morphometrically indistinguishable, but differed in their SSU rRNA gene sequences by 3.3%. We identified spores and developmental stages from the common shrew as Soricimyxum fegati Prunescu, Prunescu, Pucek et Lom, 2007, based on morphometric data and DNA sequence similarity. Spores from the pygmy shrew were only 96.7% similar to S. fegati, hence we identified them as a novel myxosporean Soricimyxum minuti sp. n. This is only the second myxosporean parasite species described from mammals., Csaba Székely, Gábor Cech, Stephen D. Atkinson, Kálmán Molnár, László Egyed, András Gubányi., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-5

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2015 Volume:62 | Number:1

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