Ichtyoparasitology of the Lake Turkana, Kenya - project progress report

JIRKŮ, Miloslav, Radim BLAŽEK, Šárka MAŠOVÁ and Oros MIKULÁŠ. Ichtyoparasitology of the Lake Turkana, Kenya - project progress report. In Helminthologial Days 2009. 2009. ISBN 978-80-210-4887-4.

Basic information

• Original name: Ichtyoparasitology of the Lake Turkana, Kenya - project progress report
• Name in Czech: Ichtyoparazitologie jezera Turkana v Keni - postup řešení projektu
• Name (in English): Ichtyoparasitology of the Lake Turkana, Kenya - project progress report
• Authors: JIRKŮ, Miloslav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Radim BLAŽEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Šárka MAŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Oros MIKULÁŠ (703 Slovakia).
• Edition: Helminthologial Days 2009, 2009.

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/09:00042826
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• ISBN: 978-80-210-4887-4
• Keywords (in Czech): Jezero Turkana; parazité
• Keywords in English: Lake Turkana; parasites

Abstract

Results of ongoing project of MJ focused on influence of water alkality on distribution of fish parasites were briefly presented. During the first sampling in 2008, a total of 359 fishes representing 30 species, 25 genera and 18 families were examined. All groups of metazoan parasitic organisms (incl. Myxozoa) were detected and sampled for various structural and molecular analyses during complex parasitological examinations.

Abstract (in English)

Results of ongoing project of MJ focused on influence of water alkality on distribution of fish parasites were briefly presented. During the first sampling in 2008, a total of 359 fishes representing 30 species, 25 genera and 18 families were examined. All groups of metazoan parasitic organisms (incl. Myxozoa) were detected and sampled for various structural and molecular analyses during complex parasitological examinations. Among taxonomical analyses made so far, the most interesting findings are numerous new myxosporean and helminth taxa, including two new species of large macroscopic philometrids, erection of new philometrid genus and description of new species of the nematode genus Mexiconema known previously only from disjunct members from Oriental and Nearctic realms. Apart from ongoing taxonomical work(s) and starting phylogenetic analyses, next two sampling trips in 2009 and 2010, will be followed by complex analyses of various levels of parasite communities.

Links

• LC522, research and development project: Name: ICHTYOPARAZITOLOGIE - centrum základního výzkumu

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Ichtyoparazitology - the center of basic research

• MSM0021622416, plan (intention): Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time