Abstract
TwoProteocephalus species,P. neglectus La Rue, 1911 andP. exiguus La Rue, 1911, parasites of salmonid and coregonid fishes, were compared morphologically, biometrically, and electrophoretically. The study revealed that the two taxa cannot be differentiated by the morphological criteria used. No fixed allelic difference was found. In all, 12 of 13 enzymes detected by isoelectric focusing exhibited virtually identical isoenzyme profiles in both species. Only in the glutamate oxaloacatate transaminase enzyme locus was a difference observed. The negligible differences in zymograms and morphology, including similar biometric variability of the taxa studied, suggest that the species could be conspecific.
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This work was supported by Slovak Academy of Sciences grants Nos 160/92 and 161/92
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Šnábel, V., Hanzelová, V. & Fagerholm, H.P. Morphological and genetic comparison of twoProteocephalus species (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae). Parasitol Res 80, 141–146 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00933782
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