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Morphological and molecular identification of Isospora massardi Lopes, Berto, Luz, Galvão, Ferreira & Lopes, 2014 (Chromista: Miozoa: Eimeriidae) from thrushes Turdus spp. (Passeriformes: Turdidae) in South America.
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Parasitology international [Parasitol Int] 2020 Apr; Vol. 75, pp. 102040. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Dec 13. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- In the current work, Isospora massardi Lopes, Berto, Luz, Galvão, Ferreira & Lopes, [10] is identified from white-necked thrushes Turdus albicollis Vieillot, 1818, rufous-bellied thrushes Turdus rufiventris Vieillot, 1818 and from a new host, the yellow-legged thrush Turdus flavipes (Vieillot, 1818) in a new locality, the Itatiaia National Park, in Southeastern Brazil, providing a preliminary genotypic characterization via sequencing of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and 18S small subunit ribosomal RNA genes. The oocysts and sporocysts of I. massardi of the current study are morphologically similar to the original description and are uniform in the proportionality of width on length, but exhibited different patterns of size associated with each host species. Furthermore, a genotypic difference of 3% was found in the COI sequences from T. flavipes and T. albicollis. Therefore, an ecological discussion is introduced aimed at associating these morphometric and genotypic differences with an ongoing speciation process.<br /> (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Animals
Bird Diseases parasitology
Brazil epidemiology
Isospora cytology
Isospora genetics
Isosporiasis epidemiology
Isosporiasis parasitology
Oocysts cytology
Oocysts genetics
Oocysts isolation & purification
Prevalence
Songbirds
Bird Diseases epidemiology
Isospora isolation & purification
Isosporiasis veterinary
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-0329
- Volume :
- 75
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Parasitology international
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31843685
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2019.102040