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2. Some factors which influence the in vitro maintenance of Anisakis simplex (Nematoda)

Creator:
Iglesias, Luis, Valero, Adela, and Adroher, Francisco-Javier
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Subject:
Anisakis simplex, culture media, survival, and moulting
Language:
English
Description:
Several culture media as well as some factors that may affect the in vitro development of the nematode Anisakis simplex Rudolphi, 1809 have been studied. After testing six media and four temperatures, the conditions for the in vitro culture selected were as follows: RPML1640 + 20% (v/v) heat-inactived fetal bovine serum or Meyer’s М3 (without agar) media, at 37"C, under 5% C02 in air atmosphere, and renewal of the medium twice a week. The average survival rates of the larvae were significantly increased when the pH of the culture medium was increased (from 4.0 to 7.2) or decreased (from 7.2 to 4,0) after L, to L4 moulting. The length of the larvae at the onset of culture affected the survival and moulting of themselves, but these were culture medium-dependent. On the other hand, we have observed that several L, and L, were attached, by means of a brown unknown substance apparently secreted by themselves, to the bottom of the substratum. Frequently, when a larva was spontaneously detached, a “cap” of the brown substance blocked, apparently, its mouth. The possible absorption of nutrients through the L, larvae cuticle of A. simplex is discussed.
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3. Taxonomic status of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) rara Arruda, Muniz-Pereira et Pinto, 2002 (Digenea: Heterophyidae)

Creator:
Scholz, Tomáš, Muniz-Pereira, Luís C., and Portes Santos, Cláudia
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Subject:
Trematoda, Heterophyidae, systematics, fish-eating birds, and Brazil
Language:
English
Description:
Holotype and paratype of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) rara Arruda, Muniz-Pereira et Pinto, 2002, a heterophyid trematode recently described on the basis of two worms collected by Lauro Travassos in 1921 in the intestine of Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin) from Brazil, were studied. The morphology of the worms revealed their conspecificity with Ascocotyle (Phagicola) angeloi Travassos, 1928 found in the same host. Both the taxa have a similar length (between 600 and 900 µm) and shape of the body (long pyriform), the long intestinal caeca reaching to the ovarian level, a long posterior muscular prolongation of the oral sucker and the prepharynx, transverse uterine loops situated between the ventral sucker and testes, and the gonotyl with more than 20 digitiform pockets. Consequently, A. (P.) rara is proposed as a junior synonym of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) angeloi.
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