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Allozyme electrophoresis was used to detect biological species of the E. gadi complex from gadids from the northern North Sea. A fixed difference at one of nine enzyme loci surveyed confirmed the existence of two reproductively isolated, sympatric species. Mixed infections of two E. gadi spp. (termed A and B) were observed in Gadus morhua and Pollachius virens. E. gadi sp. B was also found in Melanogrammus aeglefinus and Merlangius merlangus. The presence of gravid females of E. gadi spp. A and B in the same host species, P. virens, and sometimes in the same host individual, indicates that neither differential host-specificity nor seasonal differences in mating time are responsible for their reproductive isolation. Morphological study of probosces from electrophoretically identified specimens demonstrated that the two species can be discriminated in graphical and cluster analyses of hook morphometrics. E. gadi sp. I (of Väinölä etal., 1994) and E. gadi sp. A are probably conspecific.
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Wayland, M.T., Gibson, D.I. & Sommerville, C. Morphometric discrimination of two allozymically diagnosed sibling species of the Echinorhynchus gadi Zoega in Müller complex (Acanthocephala) in the North Sea. Syst Parasitol 60, 139–149 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-004-1388-3
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