Monogenean fauna of deepwater cichlids in Lake Tanganyika: Do
they follow the evolutionary history of their hosts?

a 2016

Monogenean fauna of deepwater cichlids in Lake Tanganyika: Do they follow the evolutionary history of their hosts?

KMENTOVÁ, Nikol, Milan GELNAR, Monika MENDLOVÁ, Maarten VAN STEENBERGE, Maarten Pieterjan VANHOVE et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Monogenean fauna of deepwater cichlids in Lake Tanganyika: Do they follow the evolutionary history of their hosts?

Authors

KMENTOVÁ, Nikol (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Milan GELNAR (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Monika MENDLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Maarten VAN STEENBERGE (56 Belgium) and Maarten Pieterjan VANHOVE (56 Belgium, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Zoologické Dny 2016, 2016

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087845

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-80-87189-20-7

Keywords in English

Cihlidogyrus; Bathybatini; Trematocarini; molecular analyses; population structure; multivariate statistics; geomorphometrics; haplotype network

Změněno: 11/3/2016 15:55, Mgr. Nikol Kmentová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Lake Tanganyika is a well-known study area localized in the African Rift Valley. It is a remarkable place famous for adaptive radiation processes of many taxa including cichlids (Cichlidae; Perciformes). Surprisingly, research focusing on the parasitic fauna of Tanganyika cichlids has been overlooked for many decades, but has been intensified during the last five years. To date, there are still only 25 formally described parasite species of the class Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) reported to infect cichlids of Lake Tanganyika. Monogeneans are monoxenous ectoparasites characterising by a relatively high degree of host specificity. One of the species named Cichlidogyrus casuarinus displays a decrease in host preference, suggested to be an adaptation to low host availability. It was already collected from three representatives of the tribe Bathybatini. What about the other hosts in Lake Tanganyika’s depths? Is the monogenean community really species-depauperate there? Our samples originate from different parts of the lake and represent 11 host species from three cichlid tribes. Collected parasites specimens were examined by morphometrics as well as genetic analyses. Geomorphometrics was added to investigate in detail the shape of informative sclerotized structures at the intraspecific level. The results confirmed the previous status of C. casuarinus as a generalist species, now reported from six bathybatine hosts. On the other hand, Trematocara unimaculatum belonging to the same tribe is infected by a different monogenean species which is new for science. Moreover, the list of parasites occurring in this lake’s depths was enriched by another Cichlidogyrus species collected from Benthochromis horii. Comparative morphological analysis showed discrepancy between host and parasite phylogeny of Gnathochromis and its monogenean fauna.

Links

GBP505/12/G112, research and development project

Name: ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

KMENTOVÁ, Nikol, Milan GELNAR, Monika MENDLOVÁ, Maarten VAN STEENBERGE and Maarten Pieterjan VANHOVE. Monogenean fauna of deepwater cichlids in Lake Tanganyika: Do they follow the evolutionary history of their hosts? In Zoologické Dny 2016. 2016. ISBN 978-80-87189-20-7.

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N2  - Lake Tanganyika is a well-known study area localized in the African Rift Valley. It is a remarkable place famous for adaptive radiation processes of many taxa including cichlids (Cichlidae; Perciformes). Surprisingly, research focusing on the parasitic fauna of Tanganyika cichlids has been overlooked for many decades, but has been intensified during the last five years. To date, there are still only 25 formally described parasite species of the class Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) reported to infect cichlids of Lake Tanganyika. Monogeneans are monoxenous ectoparasites characterising by a relatively high degree of host specificity. One of the species named Cichlidogyrus casuarinus displays a decrease in host preference, suggested to be an adaptation to low host availability. It was already collected from three representatives of the tribe Bathybatini. What about the other hosts in Lake Tanganyika’s depths? Is the monogenean community really species-depauperate there? Our samples originate from different parts of the lake and represent 11 host species from three cichlid tribes. Collected parasites specimens were examined by morphometrics as well as genetic analyses. Geomorphometrics was added to investigate in detail the shape of informative sclerotized structures at the intraspecific level. The results confirmed the previous status of C. casuarinus as a generalist species, now reported from six bathybatine hosts. On the other hand, Trematocara unimaculatum belonging to the same tribe is infected by a different monogenean species which is new for science. Moreover, the list of parasites occurring in this lake’s depths was enriched by another Cichlidogyrus species collected from Benthochromis horii. Comparative morphological analysis showed discrepancy between host and parasite phylogeny of Gnathochromis and its monogenean fauna.
ER  -

KMENTOVÁ, Nikol, Milan GELNAR, Monika MENDLOVÁ, Maarten VAN STEENBERGE and Maarten Pieterjan VANHOVE. Monogenean fauna of deepwater cichlids in Lake Tanganyika: Do they follow the evolutionary history of their hosts? In \textit{Zoologické Dny 2016}. 2016. ISBN~978-80-87189-20-7.

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