Parasitology Research

, Volume 112, Issue 4, pp 1575–1582 | Cite as

Three actinosporean types (Myxozoa) from the oligochaete Branchiura sowerbyi in China

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Three actinosporean types—raabeia, aurantiactinomyxon, and guyenotia—from the oligochaete Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard collected from a crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) pond are described in this report. Compared with the actinospores described previously, the raabeia type presents similar spore shape with the actinospore of Myxobolus cultus, except a much longer caudal process, 250.8 μm (217.5–276.3). The aurantiactinomyxon and guyenotia type significantly differ from other actinospores in its same collective group with different caudal process shape (taper and leaf-like) and dimension, 170.8 μm (167.5–176.3) and 18.5 μm (16.5–20.6), respectively. The partial 18S rDNA sequences of raabeia and aurantiactinomyxon types, and myxospores M. cultus, Myxobolus wulii, Myxobolus pyramidis, and Thelohanellus wuhanensis detected from pond-reared crucian carp were determined. Based on DNA sequences analysis, the raabeia type showed high genetic similarity (99.5–100 %) with myxospore M. cultus Yokoyama, Ogawa & Wakabayashi, 1995 on the gills of crucian carp sampled from the same pond. The aurantiactinomyxon showed no more than 85.2 % sequence similarity with myxospores determined in this report and other myxozoans available from GenBank.

Keywords

Crucian Carp Polar Capsule Polar Filament Gibel Carp Caudal Process 
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Acknowledgments

Valuable comments and helpful suggestions of the anonymous reviewers are greatly appreciated. The authors are also grateful to Dr. Xie and Dr. Cui (Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for their assistance in the Oligochaeta identification and to Bo Liu and Qun-Lan Zhou for their assistance in sampling. The work was supported by the Natural Sciences Foundation of Jiangsu Province (no. BK2011182), project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, CAFS Grant (project no. 2009JBFB03 and 2011JBFA07)

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research CenterChinese Academy of Fishery SciencesWuxiChina
  2. 2.Wuxi Fishery CollegeNanjing Agricultural UniversityJiangsuChina
  3. 3.Institute of HydrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina

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