Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Ecological and molecular associations between neotropical wild felids and Taenia (Cestoda: Taeniidae) in the Atlantic Forest: a new report for Taenia omissa

  • Research
  • Published:
Parasitology Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Ecological associations between wild felids and parasites from the Taeniidae family are related to predator–prey interactions, where felids act as definitive hosts while their prey, herbivores and/or omnivores, act as intermediate hosts. In the Atlantic Forest, six neotropical felid species coexist in sympatry, but the ecological parasite-host interactions remain poorly studied. Taenia omissa is a tapeworm that parasitizes cougars (Puma concolor) as its only definitive host and their ungulate prey as intermediate hosts. The aim of this study was to identify tapeworms present in road-killed fauna using both molecular and morphological characteristics and their predator–prey relationship. Adult tapeworms found in a cougar, a jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), and two ocelots (Leopardus pardalis); and metacestodes found in a red brocket deer (Mazama americana) and a wild guinea pig (Cavia aperea) were analyzed. Through morphological analysis of rostellar hooks and molecular analysis of the mitochondrial genetic marker cox1, Taenia omissa adult individuals were identified in the cougar, and metacestodes in the red brocket deer, proving the existence of a full host-parasite life cycle in the Atlantic Forest region. This new report reveals the southernmost record of T. omissa and broadens its geographic distribution. In addition, isolates of the Taenia genus divergent from those described so far in molecular databases were reported and suggested a wild cycle that involves the jaguarundi and agouti (Dasyprocta asarae) as definitive and intermediate hosts, respectively. These results highlight the complexity of the tapeworm population in the region and the need to study it with both morphological and molecular approaches.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7

Similar content being viewed by others

Availability of data and materials

The sequences identified in this study were deposited in the GenBank database under accession numbers OQ921985 (CAMi1), OQ921986 (MAMi1), OQ921987 (PCMi1_1), OQ921988 (PCMi1_2), OQ921989 (HYMi1), OQ921990 (LPMi1), and OQ92191 (LPMi2).

References

  • Abuladze KI (1964) Taeniata of animals and man and diseases caused by them. Essentials of cestodology

  • Arrabal JP, Avila HG, Rivero MR, Camicia F, Salas MM, Costa SA, Nocera C, Rosenzvit MC, Kamenetzky L (2017) Echinococcus oligarthrus in the subtropical region of Argentina: first integration of morphological and molecular analyses determines two distinct populations. Vet Parásitol 240:60–67

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Arrabal JP, Pérez MG, Arce LF, Kamenetzky L (2020) First identification and molecular phylogeny of Sparganum proliferum from endangered felid (Panthera onca) and other wild definitive hosts in one of the regions with highest worldwide biodiversity. Int J Parásitol: Parasites Wildl 13:142–149

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Benatti D, De Santi M, Werther K, Tebaldi JH, Hoppe EGL (2021) Helminthfauna of road-killed cougars (Puma concolor) from the Northeastern Region of São Paulo State, Brazil. Rev Bras Parasitol Vet 29:30(1):e024120. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612021008

  • Bianchi RDC, Rosa AF, Gatti A, Mendes SL (2011) Diet of margay, Leopardus wiedii, and jaguarundi, Puma yagouaroundi, (Carnivora: Felidae) in Atlantic rainforest, Brazil. Zoologia (curitiba) 28:127–132

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bisceglia S, Palacios R, Quiroga VA, Arrabal JP, Cruz P, De Angelo C, Cuyckens GAE, Aprile G (2019) Herpailurus yagouaroundi. En: SAyDS–SAREM (eds.) Categorización 2019 de los mamíferos de Argentina según su riesgo de extinción. Lista Roja de los mamíferos de Argentina. Versión digital: http://cma.sarem.org.ar. Accessed 16 May 2023

  • Bouckaert R, Vaughan TG, Barido-Sottani J, Duchêne S, Fourment M, Gavryushkina A, Heled J, Jones G, Kühnert D, De Maio N, Matschiner M, Mendes FK, Müller NF, Ogilvie HA, du Plessis L, Popinga A, Rambaut A, Rasmussen D, Siveroni I, Suchard MA, Wu CH, Xie D, Zhang C, Stadler T, Drummond AJ (2019) BEAST 2.5: an advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis. PLoS Comput Biol. 15(4):e1006650

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Carreno RA, Durden LA, Brooks DR, Abrams A, Hoberg EP (2001) Parelaphostrongylus tenuis (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae) and other parasites of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Costa Rica. Comp Parásitol 68(2):177–184

    Google Scholar 

  • Chervy L (2002) The terminology of larval cestodes or metacestodes. Syst Parasitol 52(1):1–33

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ciccarelli FD, Doerks T, von Mering C, Creevey CJ, Snel B, Bork P (2006) Toward automatic reconstruction of a highly resolved tree of life. Science 311(5765):1283–1287

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cruz P (2017) Distribución, requerimientos de hábitat e interacciones ecológicas de los felinos medianos y pequeños del Bosque Atlántico del Alto Paraná de la provincia de Misiones. Tesis doctoral. Thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. pp 170

  • Cruz P, Iezzi M, De Angelo C, Varela D, Di Bitetti M, Paviolo A (2018) Effects of human impacts on habitat use, activity patterns and ecological relationships among medium and small felids of the Atlantic Forest. PlosOne 13(8):e0200806

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cruz P, De Angelo C, Martínez Pardo J, Iezzi ME, Varela D, Di Bitetti MS, Paviolo A (2019) Cats under cover: habitat models indicate a high dependency on woodlands by Atlantic Forest felids. Biotropica 51:266–278

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dare OK, Watkins WG (2012) First record of parasites from cougars (Puma concolor) in Manitoba, Canada. Can Field-Natural 126(4):324–327

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Angelo C (2009) El paisaje del Bosque Atlántico del Alto Paraná y sus efectos sobre la distribución y estructura poblacional del jaguar (Panthera onca) y el puma (Puma concolor). PhD Thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. pp 252

  • De Angelo C, Paviolo A, Di Bitetti M (2011) Differential impact of landscape transformation on pumas (Puma concolor) and jaguars (Panthera onca) in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest. Divers Distrib 17(3):422–436

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • de Oliveira TG (2002) Comparative feeding ecology of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) in the neotropics. In El jaguar en el nuevo milenio. Una evaluación de su estado, detección de prioridades y recomendaciones para la conservación de los jaguares en América (ed. by Medellın RA, Chetkiewicz C, Rabinowitz A, Redford KH, Robinson JG, Sanderson E, Taber A). Editorial Ediciones Científicas Universitarias, Mexico DF pp. 265–288

  • Denegri GM (2008) Fundamento epistemológico de la parasitología. EUDEM. pp 231

  • Di Bitetti M, Paviolo A, De Angelo C, Di Blanco Y (2008) Local and continental correlates of the abundance of a neotropical cat, the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). J Trop Ecol 24(2):189–200

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Di Bitetti M, De Angelo C, Di Blanco Y, Paviolo A (2010) Niche partitioning and species coexistence in a Neotropical felid assemblage. Acta Oecol 36:403–412

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dias DM, Massara RL, De Campos CB, Rodrigues FHG (2019) Feline predator–prey relationships in a semi-arid biome in Brazil. J Zool 307(4):282–291

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Donadio E, Buskirk SW, Novaro AJ (2012) Juvenile and adult mortality patterns in a vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) population. J Mammal 93(6):1536–1544

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eckert J, Gemmell MA, Meslin FX, Pawłowski ZS (2001) Manual OMS/OIE sobre equinococosis en humanos y animales: un problema de salud pública de preocupación mundial. Organización Mundial de Sanidad Animal (Office International des Epizooties), París, Francia, y Organización Mundial de la Salud, Ginebra, Suiza

  • Fernández CS, Baldi R (2014) Hábitos alimentarios del puma (Puma concolor) e incidencia de la depredación en la mortandad de guanacos (Lama guanicoe) en el noreste de la Patagonia. Mastozool Neotrop 21(2):331–338

    Google Scholar 

  • Ferreguetti AC, Tomas WM, Bergallo HG (2018) Density, habitat use, and daily activity patterns of the Red-rumped Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Stud Neotrop Fauna Environ 53(2):143–151

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forrester DJ, Rausch RL (1990) Cysticerci (Cestoda: Taeniidae) from white-tailed deer, Odocoilus virginianus, in southern Florida. J Parásitol 76:583–585

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Forrester DJ, Conti JA, Belden RC (1985) Parasites of the Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi). Proc Helminthol Soc Wash 52(1):95–97

    Google Scholar 

  • Foster GW, Cunningham MW, Kinsella JM, McLaughlin G, Forrester DJ (2006) Gastrointestinal helminths of free-ranging Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) and the efficacy of the current anthelmintic treatment protocol. J Wildl Dis 42(2):402–406

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gentry A, Clutton-Brock J, Groves CP (2004) The naming of wild animal species and their domestic derivatives. J Archaeol Sci 31(5):645–651

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Giordano AJ (2016) Ecology and status of the jaguarundi Puma yagouaroundi: a synthesis of existing knowledge. Mammal Rev 46(1):30–43

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gomez-Puerta LA, Mayor P (2021) The red brocket deer (Mazama americana) as a new intermediate host of Taenia omissa (Taeniidae). Parasitol Int 85:102439

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gomez-Puerta LA, Pacheco J, Gonzales-Viera O, Lopez-Urbina MT, Gonzalez AE, Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (2015) The taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis) and the red brocket deer (Mazama americana) as intermediate hosts of Taenia hydatigena in Peru, morphological and molecular evidence. Vet Parasitol 212(3–4):465–468

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gomez-Puerta LA, Alarcon V, Pacheco J, Franco F, Lopez-Urbina MT, Gonzalez AE (2016) Molecular and morphological evidence of Taenia omissa in pumas (Puma concolor) in the Peruvian Highlands. Rev Bras Parásitol Vet 25(3):368–373

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gomez-Puerta LA, Yucra D, Lopez-Urbina MT, Gonzalez AE (2017) The alpaca (Vicugna pacos) as a natural intermediate host of Taenia omissa (Cestoda: Taeniidae). Vet Parásitol 246:93–95

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • González S, Cosse M, Braga FG, Vila AR, Merino ML, Dellafiore C, Cartes JL, Maffei L, Dixon MG (2010) Pampas deer Ozotoceros bezoarticus (Linnaeus 1758). In: Duarte JMB, González S (Eds.) Neotropical cervidoloy: biology and medicine of latin american deer. FUNEP/IUCN Jaboticabal pp. 119–132

  • Guerisoli MM, Gallo O, Martinez S, Luengos Vidal EM, Lucherini M (2021) Native, exotic, and livestock prey: assessment of puma Puma concolor diet in South American temperate region. Mammal Res 66(1):33–43

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Guerisoli MLM, Luengos Vidal E, Franchini M, Caruso N, Casanave EB, Lucherini M (2017) Characterization of puma-livestock conflicts in rangelands of central Argentina. R Soc Open Sci 4(12):170852. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170852

  • Hall TA (1999) BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp Ser 41:95–98

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hasegawa M, Kishino H, Yano T (1985) Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA. J Mol Evol 22(2):160–174

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Haukisalmi V, Lavikainen A, Laaksonen S, Meri S (2011) Taenia arctos n. sp. (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae) from its definitive (brown bear Ursus arctos Linnaeus) and intermediate (moose/elk Alces spp.) hosts. Syst Parásitol 80:217–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-011-9324-9

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Haukisalmi V, Konyaev S, Lavikainen A, Isomursu M, Nakao M (2016) Description and life-cycle of Taenia lynciscapreoli sp. n. (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea). Zookeys 584:1

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoberg EP (2002) Taenia tapeworms: their biology, evolution and socioeconomic significance. Microbes Infect 4(8):859–866

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hoberg EP (2006) Phylogeny of Taenia: species definitions and origins of human parasites. Parasitol Int 55:S23–S30. https://doi.org/10.1016/jparint.2005.11.049

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hoberg EP (2010) Invasive processes, mosaics and the structure of helminth parasite faunas. Rev Sci Tech 29(2):255–72

  • Hoberg EP, McGee SG (1982) Helminth parasitism in raccoons, Procyon lotor hirtus Nelson and Goldman, in Saskatchewan. Can J Zool 60(1):53–57

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoberg EP, Jones A, Rausch RL, Eom KS, Gardner SL (2000) A phylogenetic hypothesis for species of the genus Taenia (Eucestoda: Taeniidae). J Parásitol 86(1):89–98

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Jensen LA, Short JA, Andersen FL (1982) Internal parasites of Odocoileus hemionus of central Utah. Proc Helminthol Soc Washington 49:317–319

    Google Scholar 

  • Jones A, Pybus MJ (2001) Taeniasis and echinococcosis. In: Samuel WM, Pybus MJ, Kocan AA (eds) Parasitic diseases of wild mammals, 2nd edn. Manson Publishing, London, pp 150–192

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Jong CVZD (1966) Parasites of the Canada lynx, Felis (lynx) canadensis (Kerr). Can J Zool 44(4):499–509

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kamenetzky L, Gutierrez AM, Canova SG, Haag KL, Guarnera EA, Parra A, García GE, Rosenzvit MC (2002) Several strains of Echinococcus granulosus infect livestock and humans in Argentina. Infect Genet Evol 2(2):129–136

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kitchener AC, Breitenmoser-Würsten C, Eizirik E, Gentry A, Werdelin L, Wilting A, Yamaguchi A, Abramov N, Christiansen AV Dris coll P, Duckworth JW Johnson WE, Luo SJ, Meijaard E, O’ Donoghue P, Sanderson J, Seymour K, Bruford M, Groves C, Hoffman M, Nowell K, Timmons Z, Tobe S (2017) A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: the final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11:80 pp

  • Lambrechts L, Fellous S, Koella JC (2006) Coevolutionary interactions between host and parasite genotypes. Trends Parasitol 22(1):12–16

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lanfear R, Frandsen PB, Wright AM, Senfeld T, Calcott B (2017) Partition Finder 2: new methods for selecting partitioned models of evolution for molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses. Mol Biol Evol 34(3):772–773. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw260

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lavikainen A, Haukisalmi V, Deksne G, Holmala K, Lejeune M, Isomursu M, Jokelainen E, Nareaho A, Laakkonen J, Hoberg EP, Sukura A (2013) Molecular identification of Taenia spp. in the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) from Finland. Parásitology 140(5):653

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ligier HD (2000) Caracterización Geomorfológica y Edáfica de la Provincia de Misiones. Informe para la fundación vida silvestre argentina. instituto nacional de tecnología agropecuaria (INTA), corrientes

  • Little JW, Smith JP, Knowlton FF, Bell RR (1971) Incidence and geographic distribution of some nematodes in Texas bobcats. Texas J Sci 22(4):403

  • Loos-Frank B (2000) An up-date of Verster’s (1969) Taxonomic revision of the genus Taenia Linnaeus’ (Cestoda) in table format. Syst Parásitol 45(3):155–184

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lühe M (1910) Cystotänien südamerikanischer Feliden. Zool Jahr Suppl. 12:687–710

  • Marcogliese DJ (2004) Parasites: small players with crucial roles in the ecological theater. EcoHealth 1(2):151–164

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marcogliese DJ, Cone DK (1997) Parasite communities as indicators of ecosystem stress. Parassitologia 39(3):227–232

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Michelet L, Carod JF, Rakontondrazaka M, Ma L, Gay F, Dauga C (2010) The pig tapeworm Taenia solium, the cause of cysticercosis: biogeographic (temporal and spatial) origins in Madagascar. Mol Phylogenet Evol 55(2):744–750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.008

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Novaro AJ, Funes MC, Walker RS (2000) Ecological extinction of native prey of a carnivore assemblage in Argentine Patagonia. Biol Cons 92(1):25–33

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paviolo A (2010) Densidad de yaguareté (Panthera onca) en la Selva Paranaense: su relación con la abundancia de presas, presión de caza y coexistencia con el puma (Puma concolor). PhD Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina. pp 201

  • Paviolo A, De Angelo C, Di Blanco Y, Di Bitetti M (2008) Jaguar population decline in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest of Argentina and Brazil. Oryx 42(4):554–561

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paviolo A, De Angelo C, Ferraz KM, Morato RG, Pardo JM, Srbek-Araujo AC, de Mello Beisiegel B, Lima F, Sana D, da Silva MX et al (2016) A biodiversity hotspot losing its top predator: The challenge of jaguar conservation in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Sci Rep 6(1):37147. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37147

  • Pence DB, Meinzer WP (1979) Helminth parasitism in the coyote, Canis latrans, from the Rolling Plains of Texas. Int J Parasitol 9(4):339–344

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pybus MJ (1990) Survey of hepatic and pulmonary helminths of wild cervids in Alberta, Canada. J Wildl Dis 26:453–459

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rambaut A, Suchard MA, Xie D, Drummond AJ (2014) Tracer v1.6. http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Tracer

  • Rausch RL (1981) Morphological and biological characteristics of Taenia rileyi Loewen, 1929 (Cestoda: Taeniidae). Can J Zool 59:653–666

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rausch RL, Maser C, Hoberg EP (1983) Gastrointestinal helminths of the cougar, Felis concolor L., in northeastern Oregon. J Wildl Dis 19(1):14–19

  • Richini-Pereira VB, Bosco SMG, Theodoro RC, Barrozo L, Bagagli E (2010) Road-killed wild animals: a preservation problem useful for eco-epidemiological studies of pathogens. J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis 16(4):607–613

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rickard LG, Foreyt WJ (1992) Gastrointestinal parasites of cougars (Felis concolor) in Washington and the first report of Ollulanus tricuspis in a sylvatic felid from North America. J Wildl Dis 28:130–133

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Riser NW (1956) The hooks of taenioid cestodes from North American felids. Am Midl Nat 56:133–137

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rossin MA, Timi JT, Hoberg EP (2010) An endemic Taenia from South America: validation of T. talicei Dollfus, 1960 (Cestoda: Taeniidae) with characterization of metacestodos and adults. Zootaxa 2636:49–58

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rostami S, Beech RN, Salavati R, Baneshi MR, Kamyabi H, Harandi MF (2013) Morphometric analysis of larval rostellar hooks in Taenia multiceps of sheep in Iran and its association with mitochondrial gene variability. Iran J Parasitol 8(4):579

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • SAyDS, S. A. R. E. M. (2019) Categorización 2019 de los mamíferos de Argentina según su riesgo de extinción. Lista Roja De Los Mamíferos De Argentina. https://doi.org/10.31687/saremMN.22.29.1.08.e0657

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schmidt GD, Martin RL (1978) Tapeworms of the Chaco Boreal, Paraguay, with two new species. J Helminthol 52(3):205–209

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Scioscia NP, Beldomenico PM, Petrigh RS, Pierangeli N, Denegri GM (2013) Epidemiological studies on Echinococcus in Pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus) and European hare (Lepus europaeus) in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Parásitol Res 112(10):3607–3613

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Silva-Pereira JE, Moro-Rios RF, Bilski DR, Passos FC (2011) Diets of three sympatric Neotropical small cats: food niche overlap and interspecies differences in prey consumption. Mamm Biol 76(3):308–312

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith-Flueck JAM, Flueck WT (2001) Patrones de mortalidad natural en una población de huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) del sur de Argentina, cérvido andino en peligro de extinción. Z Jagdwiss 47(3):178–188

    Google Scholar 

  • Stone JE, Pence DB (1978) Ecology of helminth parasitism in the bobcat from West Texas. J Parasitol 64:295–302

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Stubblefield SS, Pence DB, Warren RJ (1987) Visceral helminth communities of sympatric mule and white-tailed deer from the Davis Mountains of Texas. J Wildl Dis 23(1):113–120

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sunquist M, Sunquist F (2002) Wild cats of the. World. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Tamura K, Nei M (1993) Estimación del número de sustituciones de nucleótidos en la región de control del ADN mitocondrial en humanos y chimpancés. Biol Mol Evol 10(3):512–526

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Tamura K, Stecher G, Kumar S (2021) MEGA11: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 11. Mol Biol Evol 38(7):3022–3027

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Tófoli CF, Rohe F, Setz EZF (2009) Jaguarundí (Puma yagouaroundi)(Geoffroy, 1803)(Carnivora, Felidae) food habits in a mosaic of Atlantic Rainforest and eucalypt plantations of southeastern Brazil. Braz J Biol 69:871–877

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Udny Yule G (1925) A mathematical theory of evolution, based on the conclusions of Dr. JC Willis, FRS. Philos Trans R Soc B 213:21–87

    Google Scholar 

  • Uribe M, Payán E, Brabec J, Vélez J, Taubert A, Chaparro-Gutiérrez JJ, Hermosilla C (2021) Intestinal parasites of neotropical wild jaguars, pumas, ocelots, and jaguarundís in Colombia: old friends brought back from oblivion and new insights. Pathogens 10(7):822

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Vizcaychipi KA, Irazú L, Rinas M, Argüelles C, González Prous C, Santillan, G, De Matteo KE (2015) Fauna silvestre y parasitaria de la Selva Misionera: un binomio zoonótico por resolver. Misiones, Argentina. Revista Argentina de Zoonosis y Enfermedades Infecciosas Emergentes 10(2):29-33

  • Voge M (1955) A list of cestode parasites from California mammals. Am Midl Nat 54(2):413–417

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Waid DD, Pence DB (1988) Helminths of mountain lions (Felis concolor) from southwestern Texas, with a redescription of Cylicospirura subaequalis (Molin, 1860) Vevers, 1922. Can J Zool 66(10):2110–2117

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Williams HH, MacKenzie K, McCarthy AM (1992) Parasites as biological indicators of the population biology, migrations, diet, and phylogenetics of fish. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries 2(2):144–176

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zúñiga AH, Muñoz-Pedreros A (2014) Hábitos alimentarios de Puma concolor (Carnivora, Felidae) en bosques fragmentados del sur de Chile. Mastozool Neotrop 21(1):157–161

Download references

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the ongoing collaboration of the Regional Technical Delegation NEA National Parks and Subtropical Ecological Research Center (CIES) for technical assistance and to “Proyecto Yaguareté” for their constant collaboration. Also, we acknowledge the park rangers from National Park Iguazu for collaborating with monitoring and collecting road-killed animals with warm and special thanks to our friend Ricardo Melzew, to the veterinarian Dante Dinucci for his continuous predisposition to collaborate by collecting samples, and to Claudia Vergara Páez and Matias Alvarez for assistance with the high-quality images. Thanks to Andrea Ferrari Kristeller for the linguistic revision.

Funding

This work was carried out with funding from PNUD PGTF/INT/21/K09 (L.K.); CONICET (L.K., J.P.A, and N. M.); UBACYT 20020190100261BA (L.K.); ANPCyT PICT 2021 00018, PICT 2020 02513, PICT2017 3176 (L. K, L. A., and N. M.); and PICT 2021 00795 (N. M. and L. K.)

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS), CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM), Garupá, Argentina

    Juan Pablo Arrabal

  2. Asociación Civil Centro de Investigaciones del Bosque Atlántico (CeIBA), Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina

    Juan Pablo Arrabal

  3. Laboratorio de Biofísica y Biología Celular de Proteínas Que Unen Lípidos, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata “Profesor Doctor Rodolfo R. Brenner” (INIBIOLP), Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Lucas Federico Arce

  4. Laboratorio de Genómica y Bioinformática de Patógenos, Instituto de Biociencias, Biotecnología y Biología Traslacional (iB3), Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Natalia Macchiaroli & Laura Kamenetzky

Authors
  1. Juan Pablo Arrabal
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Lucas Federico Arce
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Natalia Macchiaroli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Laura Kamenetzky
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

J. A., N. M., and L. A. carried out the experiments. J.A., N. M., and L.K. wrote the main manuscript text. J.A. prepared Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; L. A. and N. M. performed de phylogenetic analysis and prepared Fig. 6. L. K. supervised the project. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Laura Kamenetzky.

Ethics declarations

Ethical approval

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Additional information

Section Editor: David Bruce Conn.

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Supplementary Information

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary Data S1.

 Sequence alignment used for phylogenetic analysis. (FAS 12 KB)

Supplementary Fig. S1.

Unrooted bayesian phylogeny including samples from this study, Taenia omissa and Taenia spp. GenBank records and all homologous sections of cox1 gene are from the RefSeq GenBank database.  Posterior probability values> 0.60 are indicated at the nodes. (PDF 2925 KB)

Supplementary Table S1.

Sequence identity matrix created from the same alignment used for phylogenetic analysis using BioEdit. (XLSX 25 KB)

Supplementary Table S2.

Supplementary Table S2. BLASTn results using LPMi1 as a query against the Nucleotide collection (nr/nt) database. (XLSX 29 KB)

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Arrabal, J.P., Arce, L.F., Macchiaroli, N. et al. Ecological and molecular associations between neotropical wild felids and Taenia (Cestoda: Taeniidae) in the Atlantic Forest: a new report for Taenia omissa. Parasitol Res 122, 2999–3012 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-023-07989-y

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-023-07989-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation