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Some parasites like it cold: parasitological research progress in Prince Gustav Channel, Antarctica

MAŠOVÁ, Šárka; Veronika NEZHYBOVÁ; Iva PŘIKRYLOVÁ; Ivana HEGLASOVÁ; Simona GEORGIEVA et al.

Basic information

Original name

Some parasites like it cold: parasitological research progress in Prince Gustav Channel, Antarctica

Authors

MAŠOVÁ, Šárka; Veronika NEZHYBOVÁ; Iva PŘIKRYLOVÁ; Ivana HEGLASOVÁ; Simona GEORGIEVA; Anna FALTÝNKOVÁ; Aneta KOSTADINOVA; Aleš JASINSKÝ and Kristína CIVÁŇOVÁ ORCID

Edition

Workshop: BIOVĚDY V ANTARKTIDĚ/ANTARCTIC BIOSCIENCES Současný stav a perspektivy biologického výzkumu v Antarktidě, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Requested lectures

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Marked to be transferred to RIV

Yes

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00081328

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

Antarctica; James Ross Island; Weddell Sea; parasites; fishes
Changed: 16/12/2015 21:11, RNDr. Šárka Mašová, Ph.D.

Abstract

In the original language

Parasitological survey on various Antarctic notothenioid fishes and one south polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) was carried out during the Austral summer seasons 2012-2014. Fish were caught at the Prince Gustav Channel off the Johann Gregor Mendel Station on the James Ross Island. Metazoan parasites belonging to all major groups (Acanthocephala, Cestoda, Crustacea, Digenea, Hirudinea, Monogenea and Nematoda) were recovered. Up to now, the species identification based on morphological and morphometric analyses of taxonomicaly important features has shown the presence of 21 species: two crustaceans (one copepod and one isopod), two hirudineans, seven monogeneans of the genera Gyrodactylus and Pavloskioides and eight digeneans, including seven endemic to Antarctica. The digeneans belonging to the families Hemiuridae, Lepidapedidae and Opecoelidae were morphologically and molecularly characterised and identified. Additionally, nematode specimens were collected from the skua's regurgitated pellet confirmed their identification as Contracaecum osculatum. Ongoing identification of the remaining parasitological material may reveal higher parasite diversity.

Links

GBP505/12/G112, research and development project
Name: ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie
Investor: Czech Science Foundation