Microsporidia in aquatic microcrustacea: the copepod microsporidium Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900 revisited

Title:

Microsporidia in aquatic microcrustacea: the copepod microsporidium Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900 revisited

Creator:

Vávra, Jiří, Hyliš, Miroslav, Oborník, Miroslav, and Vossbrinck, Charles R.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:82b3050b-4cc7-4e2b-843e-c244bd1eb963
uuid:82b3050b-4cc7-4e2b-843e-c244bd1eb963
doi:10.14411/fp.2005.021

Subject:

Microsporidia, Marssoniella, Cyclops vicinus, phylogeny, ultrastructure, and Trichoptera

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Description:

Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900, a parasite of ovarial tissues of the copepod Cyclops vicinus Uljanin, 1875, was studied as a representative of aquatic-clade microsporidia which form ''heteroinfectious spores'' (spores not infective to the original host as opposed to ''homoinfectious spores'' which are infective for the original host) and which thus should require an alternate host. Several structural characters of this microsporidian are similar to those of copepod morphs of microsporidia infecting mosquitoes. However, small subunit ribosomal DNA phylogeny indicates that caddis flies (Insecta, Trichoptera) might be the alternate hosts of Marssoniella. Ultrastructural data obtained are used to redefine the genus Marssoniella Lemmermann, 1900 and its type species Marssoniella elegans.

Language:

English

Rights:

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

163-172

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2005 Volume:52 | Number:1-2

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