J 2016

Nematopsis temporariae (Gregarinasina, Apicomplexa, Alveolata) is an intracellular infectious agent of tadpole livers.

CHAMBOUVET, Aurélie, Andrea VALIGUROVÁ, Lara M. PINHEIRO, Thomas A. RICHARDS, Miloslav JIRKŮ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Nematopsis temporariae (Gregarinasina, Apicomplexa, Alveolata) is an intracellular infectious agent of tadpole livers.

Authors

CHAMBOUVET, Aurélie (250 France), Andrea VALIGUROVÁ (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lara M. PINHEIRO (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Thomas A. RICHARDS (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Miloslav JIRKŮ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2016, 1758-2229

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.363

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00088151

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000395002300021

Keywords in English

Amphibia; SSU rRNA phylogeny; parasite

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

V originále

Amphibians are in decline as a result of habitat destruction, climate change and infectious diseases. Tadpoles are thought susceptible to infections because they are dependent on only an innate immune system (e.g. macrophages). This is because the frog adaptive immune system does not function until later stages of the life cycle. In 1920, Nöller described a putative infectious agent of tadpoles named Nematopsis temporariae, which he putatively assigned to gregarine protists (Apicomplexa). Here, we identify a gregarine infection of tadpoles using both microscopy and ribosomal DNA sequencing of three different frog species (Rana temporaria, R. dalmatina, and Hyla arborea). We show that this protist lineage belongs to the subclass Gregarinasina Dufour 1828 and is regularly present in macrophages located in liver sinusoids of tadpoles, confirming the only known case of a gregarine infection of a vertebrate.

Links

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