J 2002

Paradiplozoon homoion Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1959 versus P. gracile Reichenbach-Klinke, 1961 (Monogenea): two species or phenotypic plasticity?

MATĚJUSOVÁ, Iveta, Božena KOUBKOVÁ, Milan GELNAR and Carey O. CUNNINGHAM

Basic information

Original name

Paradiplozoon homoion Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1959 versus P. gracile Reichenbach-Klinke, 1961 (Monogenea): two species or phenotypic plasticity?

Authors

MATĚJUSOVÁ, Iveta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Božena KOUBKOVÁ (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Milan GELNAR (203 Czech Republic) and Carey O. CUNNINGHAM (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Edition

Systematic Parasitology, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 0165-5752

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.640

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/02:00006053

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

Paradiplozoon homoion; Paradiplozoon gracile; ITS2; rRNA; Cyprinidae
Změněno: 7/1/2004 07:44, RNDr. Božena Koubková, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Paradiplozoon homoion-complex specimens were collected from ten species of cyprinid fish in Central Europe, Czech Republic. A combined molecular and morphometric approach was performed to distinguish Paradiplozoon homoion and P. gracile. The second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) of the ribosomal RNA genes was amplified and sequences were analysed. No variability in the analysed sequences was detected. Measurements of clamps and the central hooks obtained from specimens from different host spcies were compared. Great variability was found in the length and width of the third pair of clamps. No significant differences were detected in the measurements of the central hook sickle. A positive relationship was found between the host size and each of the following measuremnts of the third pair of clamps: length and width of the whole clamp and length of the median plate. Further molecular and morphometric studies are required to resolve this taxonomic problem and henceforth we suggest considering P. gracile as a species inquirenda.

Links

IAA6093104, research and development project
Name: Ekologické parametry populací mřenky mramorované (Barbatula barbatula), jako determinanty jejího metazoárního parazitického společenstva
Investor: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ecological parameters of the stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) as determinants of its metazoan parasites' communities
MSM 143100010, plan (intention)
Name: Časoprostorová dynamika biodiverzity v ekosystémech střední Evropy.
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics in ecosystems of Central Europe