Intraspecific morphological variation in myxosporeans: high pleomorphic myxospores in the same plasmodium of Myxobolus drjagini (Akhmerov, 1954)

Title:

Intraspecific morphological variation in myxosporeans: high pleomorphic myxospores in the same plasmodium of Myxobolus drjagini (Akhmerov, 1954)

Creator:

Liu, Yang, Yao, Jiayun, Yao, Xin, Zhang, Kaijie, Wang, Qingyong, Pan, Xiaoyi, and Zhang, Jinyong

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:17950b63-e506-40bf-a606-16ff1dd80e5c
uuid:17950b63-e506-40bf-a606-16ff1dd80e5c
doi:10.14411/fp.2022.006

Subject:

morphology, pleomorphy, cranial cavity, silver carp, and SSU rDNA

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

The taxonomy of myxosporeans was traditionally dependent solely upon the spore morphological and morphometric data. Intensive reports of intraspecific morphological variation, however, are increasingly challenging the taxonomic approaches for myxosporeans. In the present work, the morphological pleomorphism of myxospores of Myxobolus drjagini (Akhmerov, 1954) was observed. More interestingly, all of these pleomorphic myxospores occurred in the same plasmodium of M. drjagini, which refutes the previous hypothesis that morphological variation of M. drjagini was derived from its responses to differences in nutrition and immunological responses associated with different host tissues. Bearing the intraspecific morphometric and morphotype variation in mind, the combination of morphological, ecological and molecular data should be applied to the species identification and delimitation for myxosporeans. This is the first reported myxobolid species with high pleomorphic myxospores which are present in the same plasmodium.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-5

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2022 Volume:69 | Number:1

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