Myxozoa in high Acrctic: Survey on the central part of Svalbard archipelago
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | International Journal for Parasitology:Parasites and Wildlife |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2014.02.001 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2014.02.001 |
| Field | Zoology |
| Keywords | Myxosporea; Marine urinary clade; Arctic; Phylogeny; Zschokkella; Schulmania |
| Description | Myxosporeans (Myxozoa), microscopic metazoan parasitic organisms, are poorly studied in the Arctic region. Our survey of benthic and pelagic fish (n=234) collected in Isfjorden (Svalbard) together with detailed morphological and molecular examination revealed the presence of nine myxosporean species. We describe three new myxosporean species: Zschokkella siegfriedi n. sp. from kidney of Boreogadus saida, Parvicapsula petuniae n. sp. from the urinary bladder of Gymnocanthus tricuspis, and Sinuolinea arctica n. sp. from the urinary bladder of Myoxocephalus scorpius. We characterise Latyspora-like organism from kidney of Clupea harengus. We provide new data for Ceratomyxa porrecta, Myxidium gadi, Myxidium finnmarchicum, Schulmania aenigmatosa, and Parvicapsula irregularis comb. nov. found in fish in Isfjord (Svalbard). The phylogenetic analyses including the newly obtained SSU and LSU rDNA data revealed that most of the species studied cluster in the marine urinary clade within the marine myxosporean lineage. Newly obtained sequences including the first molecular data for the member of the genus Schulmania, substantially enriched the Zschokkella subclade. |
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