1. Isospora sagittulae McQuistionCapparella, 1992 (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from antbirds (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest of Brazil: with notes on its distribution and dispersion in the Neotropical region
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Águida Aparecida de Oliveira, Jennifer Vieira Gomes, Mariana Borges Rodrigues, Viviane Moreira de Lima, Mariana de Souza Oliveira, Sabrina S. Soares, Danilo Giovanni Narciso Pastura, Lidiane Maria da Silva-Carvalho, Priscyanne Barreto Siqueira, Jhon Lennon Genovez de Oliveira, Bruno Pereira Berto, and Ildemar Ferreira
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0301 basic medicine ,Eimeriidae ,Amazonian ,030231 tropical medicine ,Zoology ,Forests ,Apicomplexa ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Animals ,Atlantic forest ,Passeriformes ,Phylogeny ,General Veterinary ,biology ,Geography ,Isospora ,Amazon rainforest ,Bird Diseases ,Oocysts ,General Medicine ,030108 mycology & parasitology ,Isosporiasis ,biology.organism_classification ,Infectious Diseases ,Insect Science ,Mitochondrial cytochrome ,Parasitology ,Ecuador ,Pyriglena leucoptera ,Brazil - Abstract
In the current study, Isospora sagittulae McQuistion and Capparella, 1992 (Protozoa: Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) is reported from white-shouldered fire-eyes Pyriglena leucoptera (Vieillot, 1818) in the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. To date, this coccidian species was described from antbirds in Ecuador and Brazilian Amazon. In this sense, oocysts and measurements of the description of I. sagittulae from Amazonian antbirds were required from the deposit for comparison between samples from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest. The morphology was similar in all aspects, despite the polymorphism associated with the oocyst shape. DNA sequences for the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) locus of the oocysts had similarity of 100%. Therefore, these strong morphological, molecular, and ecological equivalences ensure the unique identification of I. sagittulae. Finally, this finding reveals the wide distribution of I. sagittulae in the Neotropical region and indicates that other antbirds in the Brazilian Cerrado should disperse I. sagittulae to the Amazon and Atlantic Forest.
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- 2018