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Ripa A, Díaz-Caballero JA, Palacios-González MJ, Zalba J, Espinosa A, García-Zapata JL, Gómez-Martín A, Tkach V, Fernández-Garcia JL. Non-Invasive Wildlife Disease Surveillance Using Real Time PCR Assays: The Case of the Endangered Galemys pyrenaicus Populations from the Central System Mountains (Extremadura, Spain). Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13071136. [PMID: 37048392 PMCID: PMC10093302 DOI: 10.3390/ani13071136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
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The Iberian desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semi-aquatic mammal that inhabits mountainous areas from the centre to the north of the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees and is listed as endangered because it has suffered a serious decline. Since 1960, only three species of digeneans (Omphalometra flexuosa, Maritrema pyrenaica and Mathovius galemydis) and two nematodes (Aonchotheca galemydis and Paracuaria hispanica) have been reported from the desman, but no further information on health status and no data from Extremadura has been available. The aim of our study was to characterise the diversity and distribution of parasites and microbiomes of desmans in different areas of the Central System of Extremadura. Between 2019 and 2021 we collected 238 fecal samples and one tissue (intestine) sample that was obtained from a dead desman. DNA templates were processed by commercial or customised real-time PCR using TaqMan probes. Representative data were obtained for Cryptosporidium spp., Omphalometra spp., Eimeria spp., Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus spp. and Leptospira spp. Omphalometra spp. was studied using a newly developed PCR test. The screening of the dead desman allowed us to obtain, for the first time, a partial sequence of the 18SrDNA. This study is the most complete study of the desman, allowing us to identify parasites and the microbiome in populations of G. pyrenaicus using non-invasive sampling.
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- Adriana Ripa
- Genetic and Animal Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
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- Dirección General Sostenibilidad, Consejería Para la Transición Ecológica y Sostenibilidad, Junta de Extremadura, 06800 Merida, Spain
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- Dirección General Sostenibilidad, Consejería Para la Transición Ecológica y Sostenibilidad, Junta de Extremadura, 06800 Merida, Spain
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- Dirección General Sostenibilidad, Consejería Para la Transición Ecológica y Sostenibilidad, Junta de Extremadura, 06800 Merida, Spain
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- Genetic and Animal Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
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- Genetic and Animal Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58201, USA
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The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum): autecology and management of a global invader. Biol Invasions 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02681-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Miller JP. On the validity of the name Pseudamnicola subproductus (Paladilhe, 1869) (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae). FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2021. [DOI: 10.12657/folmal.029.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The validity of the name Amnicola subproducta Paladilhe has been controversial since the time of its publication. Several authors debated about whether to use this name instead of the original Amnicola spirata Paladilhe. Since the recent resumption of the debate seems poorly justified, literature research was done in order to clarify the validity of these names. An etymological analysis of the word Pseudamnicola is presented in order to ascertain the correct grammatical gender of the name.
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Jaume-Ramis S, Martínez-Ortí A. Iberian Distribution of the Freshwater Snail Genus Bithynia Leach, 1818 (Mollusca: Truncatelloidea), Vector of Opisthorchiasis and Metorchiasis. Acta Parasitol 2021; 66:1251-1266. [PMID: 33895979 DOI: 10.1007/s11686-021-00390-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Opisthorchis felineus and Metorchis bilis are trematodes that cause opisthorchiasis and metorchiasis, respectively. The freshwater snails Bithynia hispanica and B. tentaculata are the respective intermediate hosts for these parasites in the Iberian Peninsula, where both parasites are present. METHODS To study the distribution of these snail species, an exhaustive literature review and revision of museum collections was performed. RESULTS A total of 370 localities were compiled and mapped. B. tentaculata were found throughout the Iberian Peninsula, both in Spain and Portugal, while B. hispanica was found only in the Mediterranean coast of Spain. CONCLUSION Knowing the distribution of the Bithynia species found in the Iberian Peninsula is highlighted in terms of public health, as the presence of the snail is related to the presence of the disease and can be used as a tool to face future outbreaks.
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- Sebastià Jaume-Ramis
- Museu Valencià d'Història Natural and i\Biotaxa, l'Hort de Feliu-Alginet, Alginet, P.O. Box 8460, 46018, Valencia, Spain.
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- Museu Valencià d'Història Natural and i\Biotaxa, l'Hort de Feliu-Alginet, Alginet, P.O. Box 8460, 46018, Valencia, Spain
- Unit of Sanitary Parasitology, Department of FTF and Parasitology, Faculty of Farmacy, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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Marszewska A, Cichy A, Bulantová J, Horák P, Żbikowska E. Potamopyrgus antipodarum as a potential defender against swimmer's itch in European recreational water bodies-experimental study. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5045. [PMID: 29967728 PMCID: PMC6022732 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Swimmer’s itch is a re-emerging human disease caused by bird schistosome cercariae, which can infect bathing or working people in water bodies. Even if cercariae fail after penetrating the human skin, they can cause dangerous symptoms in atypical mammal hosts. One of the natural methods to reduce the presence of cercariae in the environment could lie in the introduction of non–host snail species to the ecosystem, which is known as the “dilution” or “decoy” effect. The caenogastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum—an alien in Europe—could be a good candidate against swimmer’s itch because of its apparent resistance to invasion by European bird schistosome species and its high population density. As a pilot study on this topic, we have carried out a laboratory experiment on how P. antipodarum influences the infestation of the intermediate host Radix balthica (a native lymnaeid) by the bird schistosome Trichobilharzia regenti. We found that the co–exposure of 200 P. antipodarum individuals per one R. balthica to the T. regenti miracidia under experimental conditions makes the infestation ineffective. Our results show that a non–host snail population has the potential to interfere with the transmission of a trematode via suitable snail hosts.
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- Anna Marszewska
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun, Toruń, Poland
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Clusa L, Miralles L, Basanta A, Escot C, García-Vázquez E. eDNA for detection of five highly invasive molluscs. A case study in urban rivers from the Iberian Peninsula. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0188126. [PMID: 29141037 PMCID: PMC5687721 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Biological invasions are an important threat to biodiversity especially in aquatic ecosystems, and their frequency is generally higher near urban areas. Potentially invasive non-indigenous molluscs were deliberately introduced into European waters for food (Corbicula fluminea) and biocontrol (Melanoides tuberculata), and unintentionally introduced by ballast water (Mytilopsis leucophaeata, Corbicula fluminea), stock contamination (Sinanodonta woodiana), accidental escapes from aquaculture (Sinanodonta woodiana), aquarium trade releases (Melanoides tuberculata) and even attached to aquatic birds (Corbicula fluminea). Three rivers from the Iberian Peninsula were monitored near the three most populated inland cities to evaluate the presence of these invasive molluscs through PCR amplification using taxon-specific primers from eDNA. New primers were designed within 16S rRNA and cytochrome oxidase subunit I genes, tested in silico from BLAST methodology and experimentally in vitro before application in the field. C. fluminea was found in Ebro River (near Zaragoza); M. leucophaeata in Guadalquivir River (near Sevilla). M. tuberculata and S. woodiana were found from enclosed areas (lake and reservoir respectively) upstream, respectively, Zaragoza and Madrid. The new tools are ready to be used in other regions where these species are also invasive.
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- Laura Clusa
- Department of Functional Biology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Department of Functional Biology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Metropolitan Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Sevilla, EMASESA., Sevilla, Spain
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- Metropolitan Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Sevilla, EMASESA., Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Functional Biology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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Camargo JA, Alonso Á. Ecotoxicological assessment of the impact of fluoride (F -) and turbidity on the freshwater snail Physella acuta in a polluted river receiving an industrial effluent. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 24:15667-15677. [PMID: 28523621 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9208-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We carried out field studies and laboratory experiments to assess the impact of fluoride (F-) and turbidity on the freshwater snail Physella acuta in a polluted river receiving an industrial effluent (the middle Duraton River, Central Spain). Fluoride concentrations and turbidity levels significantly increased downstream from the industrial effluent (with the highest values being 0.6 mg F-/L and 55.2 nephelometric turbidity unit). In addition, higher deposition of fine inorganic matter was evident at polluted sampling sites. Conversely, the abundance of P. acuta significantly declined (until its virtual disappearance) downstream from the industrial effluent. Toxicity bioassays showed that P. acuta is a relatively tolerant invertebrate species to fluoride toxicity, with estimated safe concentrations (expressed as LC0.10 values for infinite hours of exposure) for juvenile and adult snails being 2.4 and 3.7 mg F-/L, respectively. Furthermore, juvenile snails (more sensitive than adult snails) did not show significant alterations in their behavior through 15 days of exposure to 2.6 mg F-/L: mean values of the proportion of test snails located on the water surface habitat, as well as mean values of the sliding movement rate (velocity) of test snails, never showed significant differences when comparing control and treatment glass vessels. It is concluded that instream habitat degradation, derived from increased turbidity levels, might be a major cause for significant reductions in the abundance of P. acuta downstream from the industrial effluent. The presence of the competing gastropod Ancylus fluviatilis could also affect negatively the recovery of P. acuta abundance.
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- Julio A Camargo
- Unidad Docente de Ecología, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
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- Unidad Docente de Ecología, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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Boeters HD, Falkner G. The genusMercuriaBoeters, 1971 in France (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae). West-European Hydrobiidae, Part 13. ZOOSYSTEMA 2017. [DOI: 10.5252/z2017n2a4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, DE-70191 Stuttgart (Germany) and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
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Boeters HD, Callot-Girardi H, Knebelsberger T. News of Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) of Spain and France (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea). FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2015. [DOI: 10.12657/folmal.023.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Delicado D, Machordom A, Ramos MA. Vicariant versus dispersal processes in the settlement ofPseudamnicola(Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae) in the Mediterranean Balearic Islands. Zool J Linn Soc 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Diana Delicado
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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Delicado D, Machordom A, Ramos MA. Underestimated diversity of hydrobiid snails. The case ofPseudamnicola (Corrosella)(Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae). J NAT HIST 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.623358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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