Intraspecific morphometric variation in myxosporeans

Title:

Intraspecific morphometric variation in myxosporeans

Creator:

Zhai, Yanhua, Whipps, Christopher M, Gu, Zemao, Guo, Qingxiang, Wu, Zizhen, Wang, Hongmei, and Liu, Yang

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:dd4eae09-12d9-4fa5-9f42-10a55ffbb25c
uuid:dd4eae09-12d9-4fa5-9f42-10a55ffbb25c
issn:1803-6465
doi:10.14411/fp.2016.011

Subject:

morfologie (biologie), morphology (biology), intraspecific variation, Myxozoa, species differentiation, Myxobolidae, 2, and 59

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

print, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

Morphometric data from spores of ten myxosporean species were statistically analysed to explore myxosporean intraspecific variation in measurements when obtained from a sample from: (1) the same plasmodium, (2) different plasmodia from the same host and (3) different host individuals and localities. In some cases, significant differences in spore dimensions were found between samples from the same plasmodium, highlighting the difficulty of obtaining representative measurements of myxosporean spore. In addition, significant differences in spore dimensions were found when plasmodia from the same site of infection were compared, suggesting that measurements of spores should come from several different plasmodia of the sampling to increase the reliability of the morphology data. Moreover, significant differences in spore dimensions were observed for most spore dimensions when data were compared between localities. In all cases, there was clear overlap in ranges of dimensions even when means differed significantly. The present statistical analysis shows that intraspecific morphometric variation of myxosporean species commonly occurs, highlighting the importance of reporting ranges of measurements for a species, not just the mean dimensions, and taking into account all evidence when assigning or describing myxosporean species., Yanhua Zhai, Christopher M. Whipps, Zemao Gu, Qingxiang Guo, Zizhen Wu, Hongmei Wang, Yang Liu., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

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

Coverage:

1-7

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2016 Volume:63 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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