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Le Gal AS, Georges JY, Sotin C, Charrière B, Verneau O. Morphological variations and demographic responses of the Mediterranean pond turtle Mauremys leprosa to heterogeneous aquatic habitats. Sci Total Environ 2024; 927:172077. [PMID: 38569955 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Human activities affect terrestrial and aquatic habitats leading to changes at both individual and population levels in wild animal species. In this study, we investigated the phenotype and demographics of the Mediterranean pond turtle Mauremys leprosa (Schweigger, 1812) in contrasted environments of Southern France: two peri-urban rivers receiving effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), and another one without sewage treatment plant. Our findings revealed the presence of pesticides and pharmaceuticals in the three rivers of investigation, the highest diversities and concentrations of pollutants being found in the river subsections impacted by WWTP effluents. Principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering identified three levels of habitat quality, with different pollutant concentrations, thermal conditions, nutrient, and organic matter levels. The highest turtle densities, growth rates, and body sizes were estimated in the most disturbed habitats, suggesting potential adult benefits derived from harsh environmental conditions induced by pollution and eutrophication. Conversely, juveniles were the most abundant in the least polluted habitats, suggesting adverse effects of pollution on juvenile survival or adult reproduction. This study suggests that turtles living in polluted habitats may benefit from enhanced growth and body size, at the expense of reproductive success.
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- Anne-Sophie Le Gal
- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France; Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860 Perpignan cedex, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, Private Bag X6001, 20520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Verneau O, Melliti S, Kimdil L, El Mouden EH, Achouri MS, Rouag R. Molecular Phylogenies of Leeches and Haemoparasites Infecting Freshwater Turtles in Aquatic Ecosystems of Northern Africa Suggest Phylogenetic Congruence between Placobdella costata Sensu Lato and Haemogregarina stepanowi Sensu Lato. Microorganisms 2023; 11:1584. [PMID: 37375085 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11061584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 06/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Haemogregarines are blood parasites with a life-cycle involving a vertebrate as the intermediate host and an invertebrate as the definitive host and vector. Extensive phylogenetic investigations based on 18S-rRNA gene sequences have shown that Haemogregarina stepanowi (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) is able to infest a large diversity of freshwater turtle species, including the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis, the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris, the Caspian turtle Mauremys caspica, the Mediterranean pond turtle Mauremys leprosa, and the Western Caspian turtle Mauremys rivulata, among others. From the same molecular markers, H. stepanowi is further considered to be a complex of cryptic species predisposed to infect the same host species. While Placobdella costata is known to be the unique vector of H. stepanowi, it is only recently that independent lineages within P. costata have been illustrated-suggesting the presence of at least five unique leech species across Western Europe. The aims of our study were therefore to investigate from mitochondrial markers (COI) the genetic diversity within haemogregarines and leeches infecting freshwater turtles of the Maghreb, in order to identify processes of parasite speciation. We showed that H. stepanowi consists of at least five cryptic species in the Maghreb, while two Placobella species were identified in the same area. Although an Eastern-Western speciation pattern was apparent for both leeches and haemogregarines, we cannot make definitive conclusions regarding co-speciation patterns between parasites and vectors. However, we cannot reject the hypothesis of a very strict host-parasite specificity within leeches.
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- Olivier Verneau
- Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
- CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 20520, South Africa
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- Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
- Laboratoire de Diversité, Gestion et Conservation des Systèmes Biologiques, LR18ES06, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université Tunis-El Manar, Tunis 2092, Tunisia
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- Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
- Laboratory of Water, Biodiversity and Climatic Change, Faculty of Sciences, Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Water, Biodiversity and Climatic Change, Faculty of Sciences, Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco
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- Laboratoire de Diversité, Gestion et Conservation des Systèmes Biologiques, LR18ES06, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université Tunis-El Manar, Tunis 2092, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Recherche Biodiversité et Pollution des Ecosystèmes, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Chadli Bendjedid El-Tarf, BP73, El-Tarf 36000, Algeria
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Le Gal AS, Priol P, Georges JY, Verneau O. Population structure and dynamics of the Mediterranean Pond turtle Mauremys leprosa (Schweigger, 1812) in contrasted polluted aquatic environments. Environ Pollut 2023; 330:121746. [PMID: 37137405 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Pollution contributes to the degraded state of continental aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity. Some species appear to be tolerant to aquatic pollution, yet little is known about the effects of such pollution on population structure and dynamics. Here, we investigated how wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents of the Cabestany City, in southern France, contribute to the pollution levels of the Fosseille River, and we tested how they could affect population structure and medium-term dynamics of the native freshwater turtle, the Mediterranean Pond Turtle Mauremys leprosa (Schweigger, 1812). Amongst the 68 pesticides surveyed from water samples collected along the river in 2018 and 2021, a total of 16 pesticides were detected, among which eight were found in the upstream section of the river, 15 in the river section located downstream of the WWTP, and 14 in the outfall of the WWTP, exhibiting the contribution of effluents to the river pollution. From 2013 to 2018 and in 2021, capture-mark-recapture protocols were carried out on the freshwater turtle population living in the river. Using robust design and multi-state models, we showed a stable population throughout the study period, with high year-dependent seniority, and a bidirectional transition occurring primarily from the upstream to the downstream river sections of the WWTP. The freshwater turtle population consisted mostly of adults, with a male biased sex ratio detected downstream of the WWTP neither related to sex-dependent survival, recruitment, nor transition, suggesting a male bias in the hatchlings or primary sex ratio. Also, the largest immatures and females were captured downstream of the WWTP, with females having the highest body condition, whereas no such differences were observed in males. This study highlights that population functioning of M. leprosa is driven primarily by effluents induced resources, at least over the medium-term.
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- Anne-Sophie Le Gal
- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur Les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan Cedex, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur Les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan Cedex, France; Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC, UMR 7178, 23 Rue Du Lœss, 67000, Strasbourg, France.
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- StatiPop, Scientific Consulting, 34190, Cazilhac, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC, UMR 7178, 23 Rue Du Lœss, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur Les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan Cedex, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur Les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan Cedex, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, 20520, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Landman W, Verneau O, Vences M, du Preez L. Metapolystoma ohlerianum n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis (Anura: Mantellidae). Acta Parasitol 2023:10.1007/s11686-023-00668-z. [PMID: 36930240 DOI: 10.1007/s11686-023-00668-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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PURPOSE Despite Madagascar's high amphibian diversity of more than 400 species, only a few polystome species are known from the island. The dissection of frogs from museum collections, together with amphibian and parasite surveys conducted in Madagascar led to the discovery of an undescribed polystome infecting Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis. The purpose of this study is to formally describe this species. METHODS Polystomes recovered from A. madagascariensis were stained (Acetocarmine) and mounted (Canada balsam) to facilitate morphometrics and taxonomic drawings. Some specimens were fixed in absolute alcohol, a Bayesian tree inferred from the analysis of concatenated 18S, 28S and COI gene sequences was constructed and pairwise distances were calculated. Parasites collected from archived hosts in museums were used for histology and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). RESULTS Polystomes recovered from A. madagascariensis display characteristics of the genus Metapolystoma and morphologically differed from all other known metapolystomes. The Bayesian phylogeny shows that Metapolystoma n. sp. ex. A. madagascariensis and M. falcatum are sister species with high Bayesian posterior probability. Histological and SEM investigations contributed to morphological descriptions. CONCLUSIONS Morphological examination supported by phylogenetic analysis and genetic divergences revealed distinct differences from all known metapolystome species, supporting the description of a new species. Differences between the life cycles of Metapolystoma and Polystoma provided additional evidence for the validity of that genus as taxon. Whereas Polystoma may display ovoviviparity on rare occasions after incomplete egg expulsion towards the end of the breeding season, Metapolystoma displays true ovoviviparity. We emphasize the need for parasite surveys in Madagascar and recommended for museum material to be examined for polystomes to provide supplementary material and localities for further field investigation.
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- Willem Landman
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 66860, Perpignan, France.,Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, CNRS, 66860, Perpignan, France
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- Zoological Institute, Braunschweig University of Technology, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa
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Verneau O, Johnston GR, Du Preez L. A quantum leap in the evolution of platyhelminths: host-switching from turtles to hippopotamuses illustrated from a phylogenetic meta-analysis of polystomes (Monogenea, Polystomatidae). Int J Parasitol 2023; 53:317-325. [PMID: 37004735 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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While monogenean worms are mainly parasites of the gills and skin of fish, and to a lesser extent parasites of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, and/or conjunctival sacs of amphibians and freshwater turtles, Oculotrema hippopotami Stunkard, 1924 is the single monogenean polystome reported from a mammal, the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus). Several hypotheses have been suggested in the last decade to explain the origin of this enigmatic parasite which infects the conjunctival sacs of H. amphibius. Based on a molecular phylogeny inferred from nuclear (28S and 18S) and mitochondrial (12S and COI) sequences of O. hippopotami and chelonian polystomes, we found a sister group relationship between O. hippopotami and Apaloneotrema moleri (Du Preez & Morrison, 2012). This result suggests lateral parasite transfer between freshwater turtles and hippopotamuses, thus likely reflecting one of the most exceptional known examples of host-switching in the course of vertebrate evolution. It also demonstrates that the proximity in the ecological habitat of parasites within host species is an important feature for their speciation and diversification. Because A. moleri and its host, the Florida softshell turtle (Apalone ferox (Schneider)), are restricted to the USA, we suggest that an ancestral stock of parasites may have been isolated on primitive African trionychids after they diverged from their American relatives, and then switched to hippopotamuses or anthracotheres in Africa.
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Noyer M, Bernard M, Verneau O, Palacios C. Insights on the particle-attached riverine archaeal community shifts linked to seasons and to multipollution during a Mediterranean extreme storm event. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:49685-49702. [PMID: 36780079 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25637-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Even if Archaea deliver important ecosystem services and are major players in global biogeochemical cycles, they remain poorly understood in freshwater ecosystems. To our knowledge, no studies specifically address the direct impact of xenobiotics on the riverine archaeome. Using environmental DNA metabarcoding of the 16S ribosomal gene, we previously demonstrated bacterial communities significant shifts linked to pollutant mixtures during an extreme flood in a typical Mediterranean coastal watercourse. Here, using the same methodology, we sought to determine whether archaeal community shifts coincided with the delivery of environmental stressors during the same flood. Further, we wanted to determine how archaea taxa compared at different seasons. In contrast to the bacteriome, the archaeome showed a specific community in summer compared to winter and autumn. We also identified a significant relationship between in situ archaeome shifts and changes in physicochemical parameters along the flood, but a less marked link to those parameters correlated to river hydrodynamics than bacteria. New urban-specific archaeal taxa significantly related to multiple stressors were identified. Through statistical modeling of both domains, our results demonstrate that Archaea, seldom considered as bioindicators of water quality, have the potential to improve monitoring methods of watersheds.
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- Mégane Noyer
- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, Cefrem, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.,Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110 CNRS-UPVD Université de Perpignan Via Domitia 52 Avenue Paul Alduy 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France
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- Univ. Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France.,INRAE, SIGENAE, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, Cefrem, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.,Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110 CNRS-UPVD Université de Perpignan Via Domitia 52 Avenue Paul Alduy 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France.,Unit. for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, ZA-2520, South Africa
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, Cefrem, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France. .,Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110 CNRS-UPVD Université de Perpignan Via Domitia 52 Avenue Paul Alduy 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France.
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Chaabane A, Du Preez L, Johnston GR, Verneau O. Revision of the systematics of the Polystomoidinae (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae) with redefinition of Polystomoides Ward, 1917 and Uteropolystomoides Tinsley, 2017. Parasite 2022; 29:56. [PMID: 36562437 PMCID: PMC9879127 DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2022056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Polystomatids are platyhelminth parasites that infect mainly amphibians and freshwater turtles. For more than seven decades, chelonian polystomes were classified into three genera according to the number of hamuli, i.e. absent for Neopolystoma, one pair for Polystomoidella and two pairs for Polystomoides. Following re-examination of morphological characters, seven new genera were erected the past six years, namely Apaloneotrema, Aussietrema, Fornixtrema, Manotrema, Pleurodirotrema, Uropolystomoides and Uteropolystomoides. However, the polyphyly of Neopolystoma and Polystomoides on the one hand, and the nested position of Uteropolystomoides within a clade encompassing all Neopolystoma and Polystomoides spp. on the other, still raised questions about the validity of these genera. We therefore re-examined several types, paratypes and voucher specimens, and investigated the molecular phylogeny of polystomes sampled from the oral cavity of North American turtles to re-evaluate their systematic status. We show that all Polystomoides Ward, 1917, sensu Du Preez et al., 2022, Neopolystoma Price, 1939, sensu Du Preez et al., 2022 and Uteropolystomoides Tinsley, 2017 species, display vaginae that are peripheral and extend well beyond the intestine. We thus reassign all species of the clade to Polystomoides and propose nine new combinations; however, although Uteropolystomoides is nested within this clade, based on its unique morphological features, we propose to keep it as a valid taxon. Polystomoides as redefined herein groups all polystome species infecting either the oral cavity or the urinary bladder of cryptodires, with peripheral vaginae and with or without two pairs of small hamuli. Uteropolystomoides nelsoni (Du Preez & Van Rooyen 2015), originally described from Pseudemys nelsoni Carr is now regarded as Uteropolystomoides multifalx (Stunkard, 1924) n. comb. infecting three distinct Pseudemys species of North America.
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- Amira Chaabane
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus Private Bag X6001 Potchefstroom 2520 South Africa
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus Private Bag X6001 Potchefstroom 2520 South Africa,South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity Private Bag 1015 Makhanda 6140 South Africa
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Santa Fe College Gainesville Florida 32606 USA
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus Private Bag X6001 Potchefstroom 2520 South Africa,University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110 66860 Perpignan France,CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110 66860 Perpignan France,Corresponding author:
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Sales AN, Du Preez L, Verneau O, Domingues MV. Morphology and molecular characterization of Polystoma goeldii n. sp. (Monogenea, Polystomatidae) parasite from the urinary bladder of Physalaemus ephippifer (Steindachner) (Anura, Leptodactylidae). Parasitol Int 2022; 92:102685. [PMID: 36174939 DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2022.102685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Polystomatid flatworms of amphibians are represented in the Neotropical realm by species of Mesopolystoma, Nanopolystoma, Parapseudopolystoma, Polystoma, Riojatrema and Wetapolystoma but only species of Polystoma are known from Brazil, namely Polystoma cuvieri, P. knoffi, P. lopezromani and P. travassosi. During a survey of monogeneans infecting amphibians in the north-eastern region of Pará State, the Cayenne Caecilian Typhlonectes compressicauda was found to be infected with Nanopolystoma tinsleyi and the Veined Tree Frog Trachycephalus typhonius was found to harbor Polystoma lopezromani. A yet unknown species of Polystoma was also encountered in the urinary bladder of the Steindachner's Dwarf Frog, Physalaemus ephippifer. This new species, which is the second species reported from Physalaemus spp., is described herein as Polystoma goeldii n. sp. and its life cycle is also illustrated. The new species can be distinguished from Polystoma spp. from other neotropical realm by a combination of characteristics, including hamuli morphology, outer/inner hamuli length ratio, haptor/total body length ratio, genital bulb/total body length ratio, genital spine number and COI molecular characters.
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- Ailson Nunes Sales
- Instituto de Estudos Costeiros, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Alameda Leandro Ribeiro, s/n, 68.600-000, Bragança, Pará, Brazil
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University (NWU), Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa; South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, Makhanda 6140, South Africa
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University (NWU), Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa; University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Instituto de Estudos Costeiros, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Alameda Leandro Ribeiro, s/n, 68.600-000, Bragança, Pará, Brazil.
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Svitin R, Bullard S, Dutton H, Netherlands E, Syrota Y, Verneau O, du Preez L. Pseudocapillaria (Ichthyocapillaria) bumpi n. sp. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) Parasitising West African Lungfish Protopterus annectens (Owen, 1839) (Lepidosireniformes: Protopteridae) in Mozambique and Its Phylogenetic Position Within Capillariid Nematodes. Acta Parasitol 2021; 66:1204-1211. [PMID: 33866477 DOI: 10.1007/s11686-021-00389-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Pseudocapillaria (Ichthyocapillaria) bumpi n. sp. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) is described from specimens infecting the digestive tract of the West African lungfish, Protopterus annectens (Owen) (Lepidosireniformes: Protopteridae). METHODS Nematodes were collected in Karingani Game Reserve, Southern Mozambique and studied using light microscopy; obtained sequences of the 18S ribosomal (18S rRNA) gene used for phylogenetic studies. RESULTS The new species is assigned to Pseudocapillaria Freitas, 1959 by having a stichosome consisting of a single row of stichocytes and ventrolateral lobes on the male tail as well as by lacking spines on the specular sheath, caudal alae, a membranous caudal bursa, and a lateral expansion of the caudal end. It is also assigned to the sub-genus Ichthyocapillaria Moravec, 1982 by having a membrane between the ventrolateral lobes and by lacking a vulvar appendage. Pseudocapillaria (I.) bumpi n. sp. differs from its nominal congeners by having a comparatively large body size with relatively long spicule, bearing the thin membrane non-extending further than ventrolateral lobes in males and relatively smaller eggs without protruding polar plugs. It is the 20th species of the genus, the first from the Afrotropical Realm, and the first from any lungfish species. Phylogenetic analyses suggested that P. (I.) bumpi is deeply nested in a clade that associates species of the genera Pearsonema, Aonchotheca and Baruscapillaria.
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- Roman Svitin
- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
- I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street, Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine.
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- Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, AL, USA
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- Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, AL, USA
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
- I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street, Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
- Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860, Perpignan, France
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
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Noyer M, Reoyo-Prats B, Aubert D, Bernard M, Verneau O, Palacios C. Corrigendum to "Particle-attached riverine bacteriome shifts in a pollutant-resistant and pathogenic community during a Mediterranean extreme storm event" [Sci. Total Environ. 732 (2020) 139047]. Sci Total Environ 2021; 772:146259. [PMID: 33715859 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Mégane Noyer
- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Paris-Saclay, INRAe, AgroParisTech, GABI, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France; INRAe, SIGENAE, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; Unit. for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, ZA-2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
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Dutton HR, Du Preez LH, Verneau O, Whelan NV, Bullard SA. First Record of a Polystome from Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii (Cryptodira: Chelydridae) or Mississippi; with Comments on "Neopolystoma orbiculare (Stunkard, 1916)" and Its Junior Subjective Synonyms. J Parasitol 2021; 107:74-88. [PMID: 33556183 DOI: 10.1645/20-96] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Herein, we describe several newly-collected specimens of Neopolystoma cf. orbiculare from the urinary bladder of 2 alligator snapping turtles, Macrochelys temminckii (Troost in Harland, 1835) (Cryptodira: Chelydridae Gray, 1831) from Comet Lake (30°35'46.94″N, 88°36'3.12″W), Pascagoula River, Mississippi. Our specimens differed from all previous descriptions of N. orbiculare and its junior subjective synonyms by the combination of having intestinal ceca adorned with triangular pockets and that terminate dorsal to the haptor, distinctive hooklets each having a handle and guard of approximately equal length and having a much longer and curved blade, 16 genital coronet spines that each possess 1-2 flanges per spine, pre-testicular vaginal pores, and vaginal ducts that are anterior to the junction of the oviduct and genito-intestinal canal. Some of our specimens were enantiomorphic (4 and 3 had a dextral and sinistral ovary, respectively). Nucleotide sequences (large subunit ribosomal DNA [28S], small subunit ribosomal DNA [18S], and cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 mitochondrial gene [COI]) for our specimens were most similar to GenBank sequences ascribed to N. orbiculare. Single-gene and concatenated phylogenetic analyses confirmed that NeopolystomaPrice, 1939 is polyphyletic and that our isolates share a recent common ancestor with those ascribed to N. orbiculare. This is the first record of a polystomatid from Mississippi, from the Pascagoula River, and from the alligator snapping turtle (and only the second species of Neopolystoma reported from any snapping turtle).
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- Haley R Dutton
- Auburn University, Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory and Southeastern Cooperative Fish Parasite and Disease Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa
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- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa.,University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.,CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France
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- Warm Springs Fish Technology Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Auburn, Alabama 36849
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- Auburn University, Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory and Southeastern Cooperative Fish Parasite and Disease Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, & Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849
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Attia El Hili R, Achouri MS, Verneau O. Cytochrome c oxydase I phylogenetic analysis of Haemogregarina parasites (Apicomplexa, Coccidia, Eucoccidiorida, Haemogregarinidae) confirms the presence of three distinct species within the freshwater turtles of Tunisia. Parasitol Int 2021; 82:102306. [PMID: 33610828 DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2021.102306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Species of Haemogregarina are apicomplexan blood parasites that use vertebrates as intermediate hosts. Due to limited interspecific morphological characters within the genus during the last decade, 18S rRNA gene sequences were widely used for species identification. As coinfection patterns were recently reported from nuclear molecular data for two sympatric freshwater turtles Mauremys leprosa and Emys orbicularis from Tunisia, our objectives were to design COI specific primers to confirm the presence of three distinct species in both host species. Blood samples were collected from 22 turtles, from which DNAs were extracted and used as templates for amplification. Following different rounds of PCR and nested PCR, we designed specific Haemogregarina COI primers that allowed the sequencing of nine distinct haplotypes. Phylogenetic Bayesian analysis revealed the occurrence of three well-differentiated sublineages that clustered together into a single clade. Based on pairwise genetic distances (p-distance), we confirmed the occurrence of three distinct but phylogenetically closely related species coinfecting M. leprosa and E. orbicularis in the same aquatic environments. Our results demonstrate that the use of fast evolving genes within Haemogregarina will help to investigate the parasite diversity within both intermediate vertebrate and definitive invertebrate hosts, and to assess the evolution, historical biogeography and specificity of haemogregarines.
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- Rahma Attia El Hili
- University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Diversity, Management and Conservation of Biological Systems, LR18ES06 Tunis, Tunisia; Université Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
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- University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Diversity, Management and Conservation of Biological Systems, LR18ES06 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Université Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
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Landman W, Verneau O, Raharivololoniaina L, du Preez L. First record of Metapolystoma (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from Boophis tree frogs in Madagascar, with the description of five new species. Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl 2021; 14:161-178. [PMID: 33898217 PMCID: PMC8056147 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2021.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Although Madagascar has more than 350 frog species of which all but two are endemic to the island, the known polystome (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) diversity parasitizing Malagasy frogs is low, encompassing five species of Madapolystoma, one species of Kankana and one Metapolystoma. Investigating the parasite diversity of frog parasites at selected Malagasy localities led to the discovery of undescribed polystomes. Five treefrogs, Boophis albilabris, Boophis doulioti, Boophis luteus, Boophis madagascariensis and Boophis occidentalis were found to be infected and are reported here as hosts for new Metapolystoma species. Morphological investigation, combining examination of body length, haptor length, genital bulb width, genital crown diameter, genital spine number, genital spine length, ovary length, egg length, hamulus length, hamulus guard length and hamulus hook length, revealed five distinct morphotypes. Phylogenetic analysis and genetic divergences obtained for three of the five morphotypes, support the distinction of new species. Metapolystoma ansuanum n. sp. is described from B. luteus, Metapolystoma falcatum n. sp. from B. doulioti, Metapolystoma multiova n. sp. from B. occidentalis, Metapolystoma theroni n. sp. from B. madagascareniensis and Metapolystoma vencesi n. sp. from B. albilabris. Finally, although the validity of Metapolystoma as taxon is not fully resolved yet, the phylogenetic position of the described species and their morphology provide clear evidence for new metapolystome taxa.
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- Willem Landman
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X 6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X 6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,University of Perpignan Via Domitia Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.,CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X 6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa
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Du Preez LH, Verneau O. Eye to eye: classification of conjunctival sac polystomes (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) revisited with the description of three new genera Apaloneotrema n. g., Aussietrema n. g. and Fornixtrema n. g. Parasitol Res 2020; 119:4017-4031. [DOI: 10.1007/s00436-020-06888-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/13/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Noyer M, Reoyo-Prats B, Aubert D, Bernard M, Verneau O, Palacios C. Particle-attached riverine bacteriome shifts in a pollutant-resistant and pathogenic community during a Mediterranean extreme storm event. Sci Total Environ 2020; 732:139047. [PMID: 32473395 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Rivers are representative of the overall contamination found in their catchment area. Contaminant concentrations in watercourses depend on numerous factors including land use and rainfall events. Globally, in Mediterranean regions, rainstorms are at the origin of fluvial multipollution phenomena as a result of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) and floods. Large loads of urban-associated microorganisms, including faecal bacteria, are released from CSOs which place public health - as well as ecosystems - at risk. The impacts of freshwater contamination on river ecosystems have not yet been adequately addressed, as is the case for the release of pollutant mixtures linked to extreme weather events. In this context, microbial communities provide critical ecosystem services as they are the only biological compartment capable of degrading or transforming pollutants. Through the use of 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding of environmental DNA at different seasons and during a flood event in a typical Mediterranean coastal river, we show that the impacts of multipollution phenomena on structural shifts in the particle-attached riverine bacteriome were greater than those of seasonality. Key players were identified via multivariate statistical modelling combined with network module eigengene analysis. These included species highly resistant to pollutants as well as pathogens. Their rapid response to contaminant mixtures makes them ideal candidates as potential early biosignatures of multipollution stress. Multiple resistance gene transfer is likely enhanced with drastic consequences for the environment and human-health, particularly in a scenario of intensification of extreme hydrological events.
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- Mégane Noyer
- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France; INRAE, SIGENAE, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; Unit. for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, ZA-2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
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Chaabane A, Verneau O, Du Preez L. Indopolystoma n. gen. (Monogenea, Polystomatidae) with the description of three new species and reassignment of eight known Polystoma species from Asian frogs (Anura, Rhacophoridae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 26:67. [PMID: 31746733 PMCID: PMC6865761 DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2019067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 11/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The polystomes (Monogenea, Polystomatidae) radiated across semi-aquatic tetrapods including all three amphibian orders, freshwater turtles and the hippopotamus. Prior to this study, phylogenetic analyses revealed that the most diverse and widespread genus, Polystoma, was not monophyletic; a lineage comprising four undescribed species from the bladder of Zhangixalus spp. (Rhacophoridae) in Asia occupied a deep phylogenetic position. Regarding vicariance biogeography and molecular dating, the origin of this lineage is correlated with the breakup of Gondwanaland in the Mesozoic period. Based on a Bayesian analysis of four concatenated genes (18S, 28S, COI and 12S) and morphological evidence, one new genus, Indopolystoma n. gen., and three new species, sampled in Japan and China, are described here: Indopolystoma viridi n. sp. from Z. viridis of Japan, Indopolystoma elongatum n. sp. from Z. arboreus of Japan, and Indopolystoma parvum n. sp. from Z. omeimontis of China. Indopolystoma is unique amongst polystome genera infecting anurans by possessing a small haptor relative to the body size, posteriormost marginal hooklet C1 much bigger than hooklets C2–C8 with conspicuous broad blade and guard and a pair of hamuli lacking a deep notch. Eight species of Asian Polystoma, all from rhacophorids, are transferred as Indopolystoma carvirostris (Fan, Li & He, 2008) n. comb., I. hakgalense (Crusz & Ching, 1975) n. comb., I. indicum (Diengdoh & Tandon, 1991) n. comb., I. leucomystax (Zhang & Long, 1987) n. comb., I. mutus (Meng, Song & Ding, 2010) n. comb., I. pingbianensis (Fan, Wang & Li, 2004) n. comb., I. rhacophori (Yamaguti, 1936) n. comb., and I. zuoi (Shen, Wang & Fan, 2013) n. comb.
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- Amira Chaabane
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, 2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, 2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa - University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 66860 Perpignan, France - CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, 66860 Perpignan, France
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, 2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa - South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, 6140 Grahamstown, South Africa
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Héritier L, Duval D, Galinier R, Meistertzheim AL, Verneau O. Oxidative stress induced by glyphosate-based herbicide on freshwater turtles. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017; 36:3343-3350. [PMID: 28833383 DOI: 10.1002/etc.3916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/09/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Freshwater ecosystems face very strong anthropogenic pressures, among which overexploitation, habitat degradation, flow modification, species invasion, and water pollution lead to growing threats on biodiversity. Urbanization through wastewater treatment, industry through the release of inorganic and organic chemicals, and agriculture through the use of pesticides and herbicides are the main factors involved in water pollution. In France, more precisely in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, the poor quality of the watercourses is attributable overall to the use of glyphosate-based herbicides in agricultural activities. Because these chemicals can impact individuals, populations, and biodiversity, we investigated, under experimental conditions, the physiological response of animals facing abiotic contaminants. We selected as a model, juveniles of the freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta elegans. We measured the gene expression and activity of the catalase and superoxide dismutase enzymes as well as the levels of lipid peroxidation, which are all oxidative stress biomarkers, in turtles challenged with high concentrations of glyphosate-based herbicides, on the one hand, and with degraded waters collected from a local watercourse, on the other. We also measured the acetylcholinesterase activity across the same animals. We showed through variations in gene expression and enzyme activity that a glyphosate commercial formulation induced a stress in turtles. A similar outcome was obtained when turtles faced degraded waters. The results indicated that the poor quality of regional waters could be a real threat for animal health. Because turtles are globally less sensitive to contaminants than amphibians, which are lacking in the degraded waters of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, they could constitute an excellent model to follow the evolution of water quality through the study of oxidative stress biomarkers. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017;36:3343-3350. © 2017 SETAC.
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- Laurent Héritier
- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
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- IHPE-Interactions Hôtes-Pathogènes-Environnements, Perpignan, France
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- IHPE-Interactions Hôtes-Pathogènes-Environnements, Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Héritier L, Meistertzheim AL, Verneau O. Oxidative stress biomarkers in the Mediterranean pond turtle (Mauremys leprosa) reveal contrasted aquatic environments in Southern France. Chemosphere 2017; 183:332-338. [PMID: 28554017 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Revised: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Increasing anthropogenic activities, like agricultural practices, constitute the main causes of the loss of water quality and disruption of freshwater ecosystems. High concentrations of pesticides, as shown under experimental conditions, can indeed impact freshwater animals. In Southern France, especially in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, because agricultural activities are mainly based on fruit crops and vineyards, glyphosate and AMPA were detected in some watercourses. Thereby we investigated the effects of degraded waters on the physiology of the endemic endangered freshwater species, namely the Mediterranean pond turtle Mauremys leprosa, in contrasted environments along the same rivers on the one hand and between different rivers on the other. We measured the activity and gene expression of two enzymes involved in the oxidative detoxification processes, namely the Catalase and the Superoxide dismutase. We showed significant variations in the Catalase gene expression and activity within turtles of the Fosseille River depending of their location, i.e. upstream or downstream of the wastewater treatment plants (WTP). Because agricultural environments are similar all along this river, they can no be longer considered as the unique source of turtle stress. The processed waters discharged by the WTP, which contribute to watercourses degradation, could therefore considerably impact the biodiversity of the freshwater environments.
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- Laurent Héritier
- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEntre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEntre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEntre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEntre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, CEntre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEntre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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Thomas F, Mete K, Helluy S, Santalla F, Verneau O, De Meeüs T, Cézilly F, Renaud F. HITCH-HIKER PARASITES OR HOW TO BENEFIT FROM THE STRATEGY OF ANOTHER PARASITE. Evolution 2017; 51:1316-1318. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03978.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/1996] [Accepted: 03/28/1997] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Frédéric Thomas
- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (UMR 5555, CNRS); Université Montpellier II place Eugene Bataillon; 34095 Montpellier cedex 05 France
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- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (UMR 5555, CNRS); Université Montpellier II place Eugene Bataillon; 34095 Montpellier cedex 05 France
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Wellesley College; Wellesley Massachusetts 02181
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- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (UMR 5555, CNRS); Université Montpellier II place Eugene Bataillon; 34095 Montpellier cedex 05 France
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- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (UMR 5555, CNRS); Université Montpellier II place Eugene Bataillon; 34095 Montpellier cedex 05 France
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- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (UMR 5555, CNRS); Université Montpellier II place Eugene Bataillon; 34095 Montpellier cedex 05 France
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- Station Biologique de la Tour du Vallat; 13200 Arles France
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- Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (UMR 5555, CNRS); Université Montpellier II place Eugene Bataillon; 34095 Montpellier cedex 05 France
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Héritier L, Verneau O, Smith KG, Coetzer C, Du Preez LH. Demonstrating the value and importance of combining DNA barcodes and discriminant morphological characters for polystome taxonomy (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea). Parasitol Int 2017; 67:38-46. [PMID: 28336417 DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2017.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Revised: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 03/18/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Polystomes are monogenean parasites that infest mainly semi aquatic vertebrates, such as amphibians and chelonians. Owing to the lack of discriminative morphological characters and because polystomes are considered to be strictly host- and site-specific, host identity is often used as an additional character for parasite identification. Recent genetic studies, however, showed that polystomes infecting freshwater turtles in outdoor turtle enclosures and natural environments, were not strictly host-specific. Therefore, we proposed a new procedure for turtle polystome taxonomy based on the combination of Cytochrome c Oxydase I sequences and two discriminant morphological characters, namely the number of genital spines and the testis shape. We tested the validity of this procedure with Polystomoides oris, which was collected from the pharyngeal cavity of the American painted turtle Chrysemys picta and two undescribed species, both collected from the pharyngeal cavity of the American slider Trachemys scripta and two other European turtles, namely the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis and the Mediterranean turtle Mauremys leprosa. A Principal Component Analysis based on both morphological characters allowed the separation of all specimens in three morphological groups, which matched well with the molecular data. As a result, we describe two new polystome species, i.e., Polystomoides soredensis n. sp. and Polystomoides scriptanus n. sp.
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- Laurent Héritier
- University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.
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- University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.
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- Davidson College, Biology Department, Box 7118, Davidson, NC 28035, USA.
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa; South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6139., South Africa.
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Reoyo-Prats B, Aubert D, Menniti C, Ludwig W, Sola J, Pujo-Pay M, Conan P, Verneau O, Palacios C. Multicontamination phenomena occur more often than expected in Mediterranean coastal watercourses: Study case of the Têt River (France). Sci Total Environ 2017; 579:10-21. [PMID: 27871755 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Revised: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Contaminants found in watercourses are not only the result of anthropogenic activities but also depend on river's seasonal hydrodynamics. This is particularly true in Mediterranean climate regions where long dry periods are interrupted by strong rainfalls. Storm events remobilize particles from soils and sediments and, as a consequence, the load of particulate matter in rivers can be quite considerable, severely affecting water quality. Nevertheless, an absence of fieldwork studies exists concerning the simultaneous dynamics of mixtures of pollutants in river waters, particularly during strong rainfalls and floods. Our study assessed the concentrations of six families of pollutants, including pesticides, at these events, and compared them to those observed at drought sampling periods. We have used as model a typical Mediterranean coastal river from Southeast France, the Têt River, whose hydrodynamics and major elements fluxes have been fairly investigated. As expected, our results show that chemical mixtures due to human activities occur and that they are particularly relevant during storm events. But the results of our study argue that exceptional multicontamination phenomena actually happen more often than expected because they are linked to recurrent sudden intense rainfall events in the Mediterranean. In particular, combined sewer overflows are responsible for this major issue in urbanized areas, whereas runoff and leaching will be the most important sources of pollutant mixtures occurring at flood flow peak. After an overview of the sources responsible for chronic multiple stressors events in regions under a Mediterranean climate regime worldwide, we revisit best management measures to reduce risks from the presence of chemical mixtures in the environment.
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- Brice Reoyo-Prats
- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne (LOMIC), Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France
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- UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls/Mer, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne (LOMIC), Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France; University for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, ZA-2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France; CNRS, CEFREM, UMR5110, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
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Du Preez LH, Badets M, Héritier L, Verneau O. Tracking platyhelminth parasite diversity from freshwater turtles in French Guiana: First report of Neopolystoma Price, 1939 (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) with the description of three new species. Parasit Vectors 2017; 10:53. [PMID: 28143592 PMCID: PMC5286908 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-017-1986-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Polystomatid flatworms in chelonians are divided into three genera, i.e. Polystomoides Ward, 1917, Polystomoidella Price, 1939 and Neopolystoma Price, 1939, according to the number of haptoral hooks. Among the about 55 polystome species that are known to date from the 327 modern living chelonians, only four species of Polystomoides are currently recognised within the 45 South American freshwater turtles. METHODS During 2012, several sites in the vicinity of the cities Cayenne and Kaw in French Guiana were investigated for freshwater turtles. Turtles were collected at six sites and the presence of polystomatid flatworms was assessed from the presence of polystome eggs released by infected specimens. RESULTS Among the three turtle species that were collected, no polystomes were found in the gibba turtle Mesoclemmys gibba (Schweigger, 1812). The spot-legged turtle Rhinoclemmys punctularia (Daudin, 1801) was infected with two species of Neopolystoma Price, 1939, one in the conjunctival sacs and the other in the urinary bladder, while the scorpion mud turtle Kinosternon scorpioides (Linnaeus, 1766) was found to be infected with a single Neopolystoma species in the conjunctival sacs. These parasites could be distinguished from known species of Neopolystoma by a combination of morphological characteristics including body size, number and length of genital spines, shape and size of the testis. They were also differentiated at the molecular level using the cox1 gene marker. Based on morphological and genetic evidences, three new species are described herein, namely Neopolystoma cayensis n. sp. and Neopolystoma guianensis n. sp. from the bladder and the conjunctival sacs of R. punctularia, respectively, and Neopolystoma scorpioides n. sp. from the conjunctival sacs of K. scorpioides. However the monophyly of Polystomoides and Neopolystoma is still questioned regarding their phylogeny based on a dataset comprising four concatenated genes, namely, 18S, 28S and 12S rRNA genes and cox1. CONCLUSIONS In addition to these being the first chelonian polystomes to be reported and described from French Guiana, they represent the first polystomes from the hosts K. scorpioides and R. punctularia and the first representatives of Neopolystoma from South America. Chelonian polystomes now require an in-depth morphological study to reconcile the taxonomy of the genera with species evolution.
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- Louis H Du Preez
- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa. .,South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa.
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.,CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France
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- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.,University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France.,CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, F-66860, Perpignan, France
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Héritier L, Badets M, Du Preez LH, Aisien MS, Lixian F, Combes C, Verneau O. Evolutionary processes involved in the diversification of chelonian and mammal polystomatid parasites (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae) revealed by palaeoecology of their hosts. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2015; 92:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Revised: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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De Baets K, Dentzien-Dias P, Upeniece I, Verneau O, Donoghue PCJ. Constraining the Deep Origin of Parasitic Flatworms and Host-Interactions with Fossil Evidence. Adv Parasitol 2015; 90:93-135. [PMID: 26597066 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apar.2015.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Novel fossil discoveries have contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary appearance of parasitism in flatworms. Furthermore, genetic analyses with greater coverage have shifted our views on the coevolution of parasitic flatworms and their hosts. The putative record of parasitic flatworms is consistent with extant host associations and so can be used to put constraints on the evolutionary origin of the parasites themselves. The future lies in new molecular clock analyses combined with additional discoveries of exceptionally preserved flatworms associated with hosts and coprolites. Besides direct evidence, the host fossil record and biogeography have the potential to constrain their evolutionary history, albeit with caution needed to avoid circularity, and a need for calibrations to be implemented in the most conservative way. This might result in imprecise, but accurate divergence estimates for the evolution of parasitic flatworms.
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- Kenneth De Baets
- Fachgruppe PaläoUmwelt, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Núcleo de Oceanografia Geológica, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil
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- Department of Geology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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- Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France; CNRS, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Perpignan, France; Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Science Building, Bristol, UK
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du Preez LH, Badets M, Verneau O. Assessment of platyhelminth diversity within amphibians of French Guiana revealed a new species of Nanopolystoma (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) in the caecilian Typhlonectes compressicauda. Folia Parasitol (Praha) 2014. [DOI: 10.14411/fp.2014.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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du Preez LH, Badets M, Verneau O. Assessment of platyhelminth diversity within amphibians of French Guiana revealed a new species of Nanopolystoma (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) in the caecilian Typhlonectes compressicauda. Folia Parasitol (Praha) 2014; 61:537-542. [PMID: 25651695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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An expedition was undertaken to French Guiana in search of amphibian parasites. Of the 23 anuran species collected and screened for polystomes, the toad Rhinella margaritifera (Laurenti) was the sole species found to be infected with a polystome, namely Wetapolystoma almae Gray, 1983. Of the two caecilian species collected, a new species of Nanopolystoma du Preez, Huyse et Wilkinson, 2008 was discovered from the urinary bladder of the aquatic caecilian Typhlonectes compressicauda (Duméril et Bibron). The small size of the mature worm, two non-diverticulated caeca of equal length that are non-confluent posteriorly, vitelline follicles in two dense lateral fields, a single follicular testis in the middle of the body, small ovary and a single operculated egg in utero, vaginae present and the caecilian host allowed the identification of the specimen as Nanopolystoma. Larger body size, hamulus length, egg diameter and occurrence in the caecilian family Typhlonectidae distinguishes the new species from the two other known polystomes in Nanopolystoma; thus, the description of Nanopolystoma tinsleyi sp. n. is provided within this paper.
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Berthier P, Du Preez L, Raharivololoniana L, Vences M, Verneau O. Two new species of polystomes (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from the anuran host Guibemantis liber. Parasitol Int 2014; 63:108-19. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2013.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2012] [Revised: 09/04/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Badets M, Preez LD, Verneau O. Alternative development in Polystoma gallieni (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea) and life cycle evolution. Exp Parasitol 2013; 135:283-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2013.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Revised: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 07/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To optimise host-to-host transmission, digenean trematodes (parasites) synchronize their cercarial emission patterns with the aquatic activities of their vertebrate hosts. Schistosoma mansoni has a strictly diurnal shedding pattern involving two circadian chronotypes: an early shedding pattern with a mean peak occurring at 11:00 h and a late pattern with a mean peak occurring at 16:00 h. We analysed the cercarial emergence pattern of three schistosome populations from Oman where S. mansoni is resurgent. METHODS For each schistosome population, the cercarial emergence pattern was assessed hourly over several days. Because we identified a new chronotype hitherto unknown in S. mansoni, we undertook taxonomic characterisation based on egg morphology and mitochondrial DNA sequence (COX1). RESULTS Taxonomic characterisation revealed that the three schistosome populations belong to the species S. mansoni. Hence, this is the first report of this species exhibiting a nocturnal chronotype, with the mean peak occurring at 20:00 h. We interpreted the new chronotype as being the result of a lateral transfer of S. mansoni from humans to Rattus rattus. CONCLUSION The cercarial emergence pattern of S. mansoni from Oman is circadian, exhibiting either a diurnal or a nocturnal phenotype.
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- Gabriel Mouahid
- University Via Domitia, UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Perpignan, France.
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Galinier R, van Beurden S, Amilhat E, Castric J, Schoehn G, Verneau O, Fazio G, Allienne JF, Engelsma M, Sasal P, Faliex E. Complete genomic sequence and taxonomic position of eel virus European X (EVEX), a rhabdovirus of European eel. Virus Res 2012; 166:1-12. [PMID: 22401847 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2012.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2011] [Revised: 02/07/2012] [Accepted: 02/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Eel virus European X (EVEX) was first isolated from diseased European eel Anguilla anguilla in Japan at the end of seventies. The virus was tentatively classified into the Rhabdoviridae family on the basis of morphology and serological cross reactivity. This family of viruses is organized into six genera and currently comprises approximately 200 members, many of which are still unassigned because of the lack of molecular data. This work presents the morphological, biochemical and genetic characterizations of EVEX, and proposes a taxonomic classification for this virus. We provide its complete genome sequence, plus a comprehensive sequence comparison between isolates from different geographical origins. The genome encodes the five classical structural proteins plus an overlapping open reading frame in the phosphoprotein gene, coding for a putative C protein. Phylogenic relationship with other rhabdoviruses indicates that EVEX is most closely related to the Vesiculovirus genus and shares the highest identity with trout rhabdovirus 903/87.
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- Richard Galinier
- CNRS, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions, UMR 5244, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
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Poisot T, Verneau O, Desdevises Y. Morphological and molecular evolution are not linked in Lamellodiscus (Plathyhelminthes, Monogenea). PLoS One 2011; 6:e26252. [PMID: 22022582 PMCID: PMC3192175 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Accepted: 09/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Lamellodiscus Johnston & Tiegs 1922 (Monogenea, Diplectanidae) is a genus of common parasites on the gills of sparid fishes. Here we show that this genus is probably undergoing a fast molecular diversification, as reflected by the important genetic variability observed within three molecular markers (partial nuclear 18S rDNA, Internal Transcribed Spacer 1, and mitonchondrial Cytochrome Oxidase I). Using an updated phylogeny of this genus, we show that molecular and morphological evolution are weakly correlated, and that most of the morphologically defined taxonomical units are not consistent with the molecular data. We suggest that Lamellodiscus morphology is probably constrained by strong environmental (host-induced) pressure, and discuss why this result can apply to other taxa. Genetic variability within nuclear 18S and mitochondrial COI genes are compared for several monogenean genera, as this measure may reflect the level of diversification within a genus. Overall our results suggest that cryptic speciation events may occur within Lamellodiscus, and discuss the links between morphological and molecular evolution.
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- Timothée Poisot
- UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7232, Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.
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Badets M, Whittington I, Lalubin F, Allienne JF, Maspimby JL, Bentz S, Du Preez LH, Barton D, Hasegawa H, Tandon V, Imkongwapang R, Ohler A, Combes C, Verneau O. Correlating Early Evolution of Parasitic Platyhelminths to Gondwana Breakup. Syst Biol 2011; 60:762-81. [DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Mathieu Badets
- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
- Present address: School of Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa
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- Monogenean Research Laboratory, Parasitology Section, The South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
- Marine Parasitology Laboratory, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and
- Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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- UFR SEE, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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- School of Environmental Sciences and Development, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa
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- School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Oita Medical University, Hasama, Oita 879-5593, Japan
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- Department of Zoology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, India
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- Département de Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205 OSEB, Reptiles et Amphibiens, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 25 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
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- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
- UMR 5110 CNRS-UPVD, Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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Badets M, Mitta G, Galinier R, Verneau O. Expression patterns of Abd-A/Lox4 in a monogenean parasite with alternative developmental paths. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2010; 173:154-7. [PMID: 20546802 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2009] [Revised: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 05/14/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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A key issue in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is to assess the roles of homeotic genes in order to uncover the origins of animal diversity. Within parasitic platyhelminths which show a large diversity of developmental strategies, only one study related to the expression of Hox genes has so far been conducted involving a digenean species with a complex life cycle. In the present study, we considered the expression levels of the Pg-Lox4 gene within Polystoma gallieni of the Monogenea which displays alternative phenotypes throughout its direct life cycle, depending on the physiological stage of its amphibian host Hyla meridionalis upon which free swimming larvae attach. Dissimilar expression patterns were found along the two morphogenetic routes revealing a putative role of Pg-Lox4 in the process of developmental plasticity. Pg-Lox4 was also shown to be upregulated in both reproducing parasite phenotypes indicating its apparent involvement in tissue differentiation of the reproductive organs.
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- Mathieu Badets
- UMR 5244 CNRS-UPVD, Biologie et Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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Badets M, Verneau O. Origin and evolution of alternative developmental strategies in amphibious sarcopterygian parasites (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae). ORG DIVERS EVOL 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2009.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Verneau O, Du Preez LH, Laurent V, Raharivololoniaina L, Glaw F, Vences M. The double odyssey of Madagascan polystome flatworms leads to new insights on the origins of their amphibian hosts. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 276:1575-83. [PMID: 19203917 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Polystomatid flatworms are parasites of high host specificity, which mainly infect amphibian hosts. Only one polystome species has so far been recorded from Madagascar despite the high species richness and endemicity of amphibians on this island. Out of the 86 screened Malagasy frog species, we recovered polystomes from 25 in the families Ptychadenidae and Mantellidae. Molecular phylogenetic analysis uncovered an unexpected diversity of polystome species belonging to two separate clades: one forming a lineage within the genus Metapolystoma, with one species in Ptychadena and several species in the mantellid host genera Aglyptodactylus and Boophis; and the second corresponding to an undescribed genus that was found in the species of the subfamily Mantellinae in the family Mantellidae. The phylogenetic position of the undescribed genus along with molecular dating suggests that it may have colonized Madagascar in the Late Mesozoic or Early Cainozoic. By contrast, the more recent origin of Metapolystoma in Madagascar at ca 14-2 Myr ago strongly suggests that the ancestors of Ptychadena mascareniensis colonized Madagascar naturally by overseas dispersal, carrying their Metapolystoma parasites. Our findings provide a striking example of how parasite data can supply novel insights into the biogeographic history of their hosts.
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- Olivier Verneau
- Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.
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The family Labridae contains numerous fishes known to act as cleaners in the wild. Previous studies suggested that a small body size and specific colour patterns may be prerequisites for cleaning. We investigated whether cleaning behaviour is linked to particular fish phenotypes. We first present a phylogeny based on partial 12S rRNA gene sequences of 32 wrasses sampled from different localities in the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and in the Mediterranean Sea. Secondly, descriptive data (fish body size, fish body shape and fish body colour patterns) were analyzed in a phylogenetic context using comparative methods. We found no relationship between fish cleaning behaviour and fish body size and shape, but instead a correlation between cleaning behaviour and the presence of a dark lateral stripe within wrasses. Our results suggest that the evolution of cleaning depends upon the presence of a dark median lateral stripe on the fish body surface.
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- C Arnal
- Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université de Perpignan, Cedex, France
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Simková A, Verneau O, Gelnar M, Morand S. Specificity and specialization of congeneric monogeneans parasitizing cyprinid fish. Evolution 2006; 60:1023-37. [PMID: 16817542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Patterns and likely processes connected with evolution of host specificity in congeneric monogeneans parasitizing fish species of the Cyprinidae were investigated. A total of 51 Dactylogyrus species was included. We investigated (1) the link between host specificity and parasite phylogeny; (2) the morphometric correlates of host specificity, parasite body size, and variables of attachment organs important for host specificity; (3) the evolution of morphological adaptation, that is, attachment organ; (4) the determinants of host specificity following the hypothesis of specialization on more predictable resources considering maximal body size, maximal longevity, and abundance as measures of host predictability; and (5) the potential link between host specificity and parasite diversification. Host specificity, expressed as an index of host specificity including phylogenetic and taxonomic relatedness of hosts, was partially associated with parasite phylogeny, but no significant contribution of host phylogeny was found. The mapping of host specificity into the phylogenetic tree suggests that being specialist is not a derived condition for Dactylogyrus species. The different morphometric traits of the attachment apparatus seem to be selected in connection with specialization of specialist parasites and other traits favored as adaptations in generalist parasites. Parasites widespread on several host species reach higher abundance within hosts, which supports the hypothesis of ecological specialization. When separating specialists and generalists, we confirmed the hypothesis of specialization on a predictable resource; that is, specialists with larger anchors tend to live on fish species with larger body size and greater longevity, which could be also interpreted as a mechanism for optimizing morphological adaptation. We demonstrated that ecology of host species could also be recognized as an important determinant of host specificity. The mapping of morphological characters of the attachment organ onto the parasite phylogenetic tree reveals that morphological evolution of the attachment organ is connected with host specificity in the context of fish relatedness, especially at the level of host subfamilies. Finally, we did not find that host specificity leads to parasite diversification in congeneric monogeneans.
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- Andrea Simková
- Institute of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlárská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Šimková A, Verneau O, Gelnar M, Morand S. SPECIFICITY AND SPECIALIZATION OF CONGENERIC MONOGENEANS PARASITIZING CYPRINID FISH. Evolution 2006. [DOI: 10.1554/05-521.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Santos AT, Sasal P, Verneau O, Lenfant P. A method to detect the parasitic nematodes from the family Anisakidae, in Sardina pilchardus, using specific primers of 18 S DNA gene. Eur Food Res Technol 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s00217-005-0052-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Dactylogyrus species (Dactylogyridae: Monogenea) are a group of monogenean gill parasites that are highly specific to freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae. Dactylogyrus species were sampled from 19 cyprinids and one percid collected in Europe. Using partial 18S rDNA and ITS1 sequences, a phylogeny of 51 Dactylogyrus species was reconstructed to investigate the patterns of parasite speciation and diversification. Three main Dactylogyrus lineages were recognized from all phylogenetic trees, that is, analysis of 18S rDNA alone and combined 18SrDNA and ITS1. The first lineage associates the Dactylogyrus species of Cyprinus carpio and Carassius auratus of the Cyprininae; the second associates Dactylogyrus species of the Gobioninae, Pseudorasbora parva of the Rasborinae, and Ctenopharyngodon idella of the Cyprininae; and the third associates Dactylogyrus species of the Leuciscinae and Alburninae and Barbus barbus of the Cyprininae. Our results suggest that the genus Dactylogyrus is of quite recent origin and that these three lineages separated from each other in a very short period of time. Host subfamily mapping onto the parasite tree inferred from analysis of the combined dataset showed that the Cyprininae could be plesiomorphic hosts for Dactylogyrus. Dactylogyrus parasites would have secondarily colonized the Percidae and representatives of the Leuciscinae, Alburninae, Gobioninae, and Rasborinae. Comparison of host and parasite phylogenetic relationships indicated that a very high number of parasite duplications occurred within two of the three Dactylogyrus lineages. Dactylogyrus diversification can be mainly explained by sympatric intrahost speciation events that seem to be correlated to strict host specificity. Moreover, the present study shows that the congeneric parasites speciating within one host tend to occupy niches within hosts differing at least in one niche parameter.
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- Andrea Simková
- Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlárská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Matejusová I, Gelnar M, Verneau O, Cunningham CO, Littlewood DTJ. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gyrodactylus (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) inferred from rDNA ITS region: subgenera versus species groups. Parasitology 2004; 127:603-11. [PMID: 14700197 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182003004098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Analyses of small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences of representatives of major taxa of Monopisthocotylea were performed to identify the sister group of Gyrodactylus. Nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences from the complete internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region were used to infer phylogeny of 37 Gyrodactylus species and Gyrodactyloides bychowskii, Macrogyrodactylus polypteri and Gyrdicotylus gallieni, using maximum likelihood, parsimony and Bayesian inference. The genus Gyrodactylus appeared to be a monophyletic group in all analyses, based on the present data set. Within the genus, there were 3 major groups recognized by high bootstrap values and posterior probabilities. None of the 6 subgenera appeared to be monophyletic, and the most basal subgenus G. (Gyrodactylus) was paraphyletic. Characteristics of the excretory system of Gyrodactylus do not seem to be conservative enough to reveal subgenera within Gyrodactylus and we suggest abandoning existing subgenera as indicators of phylogeny. The grouping of species based on the morphology of the ventral bar and marginal hooks seems to have sufficient power to infer relationships between the Gyrodactylus species.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Helminth/chemistry
- DNA, Helminth/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Trematoda/genetics
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- I Matejusová
- FRS Marine Laboratory, P.O. Box 101, Victoria Road, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, UK.
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Šimková A, Morand S, Jobet E, Gelnar M, Verneau O. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF CONGENERIC MONOGENEAN PARASITES (DACTYLOGYRUS): A CASE OF INTRAHOST SPECIATION. Evolution 2004. [DOI: 10.1554/03-606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Simková A, Plaisance L, Matejusová I, Morand S, Verneau O. Phylogenetic relationships of the Dactylogyridae Bychowsky, 1933 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridea): the need for the systematic revision of the Ancyrocephalinae Bychowsky, 1937. Syst Parasitol 2003; 54:1-11. [PMID: 12567005 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022133608662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Phylogenetic analyses based on partial 18S rDNA sequences of polyonchoinean monogeneans were conducted in order to investigate the relationships between selected families and subfamilies of the Dactylogyrinea, mainly within the Dactylogyridae. We tested the status of the Ancyrocephalidae sensu Bychowsky & Nagibina (1978) and the Ancyrocephalinae sensu Kritsky & Boeger (1989). Within the Dactylogyrinea, the Diplectanidae and Dactylogyridae are well supported by maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony analyses, but their phylogenetic relationship with the Pseudomurraytrematidae remains unresolved. Phylogenetic relationships between the Pseudodactylogyrinae, Ancyrocephalinae, Ancylodiscoidinae and Dactylogyrinae indicate paraphyly of the Ancyrocephalidae sensu Bychowsky & Nagibina (1978). The group of species recently considered as the Dactylogyridae sensu Kritsky & Boeger (1989) comprises two sister groups. The first group includes the freshwater Ancyrocephalinae and the Ancylodiscoidinae. The second group includes the Pseudodactylogyrinae, Dactylogyrinae and the Ancyrocephalinae from the fish species Siganus doliatus and Tetraodon fluviatilis. The non-monophyly of the Ancyrocephalinae (i.e. the non-monophyly of the group of species recently considered as members of Ancyrocephalinae), previously suggested by Kritsky & Boeger (1989) using the morphological characters, indicates that classification of the Dactylogyridae needs to be revised.
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- Andrea Simková
- Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Mediterranéenne, UMR 5555 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, Avenue de Villeneuve, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
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Gourbal BEF, Mitta G, Verneau O, Gabrion C, Coustau C. Characterization of cDNA encoding a L37a ribosomal protein from Taenia crassiceps and its potential use in phylogenetic reconstructions. Exp Parasitol 2002; 101:240-2. [PMID: 12594966 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4894(02)00144-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In this study, we characterized for the first time the complete sequence of a L37a cDNA from a cestode specie: Taenia crassiceps. A phylogenetic analysis of L37a ribosomal proteins from distant animal species is presented and the potential use of such proteins in molecule-based phylogeny is discussed.
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- B E F Gourbal
- Unité de Parasitologie Fondamentale et Fonctionnelle, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Evolutive Parasitaire, UMR 7103 CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
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Verneau O, Bentz S, Sinnappah ND, du Preez L, Whittington I, Combes C. A view of early vertebrate evolution inferred from the phylogeny of polystome parasites (Monogenea: Polystomatidae). Proc Biol Sci 2002; 269:535-43. [PMID: 11886648 PMCID: PMC1690918 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The Polystomatidae is the only family within the Monogenea to parasitize sarcopterygians such as the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus poisteri and freshwater tetrapods (lissamphibians and chelonians). We present a phylogeny based on partial 18S rDNA sequences of 26 species of Polystomatidae and three taxon from the infrasubclass Oligonchoinea (= Polyopisthocotylea) obtained from the gills of teleost fishes. The basal position of the polystome from lungfish within the Polystomatidae suggests that the family arose during the evolutionary transition between actinopterygians and sarcopterygians, ca. 425 million years (Myr) ago. The monophyly of the polystomatid lineages from chelonian and lissamphibian hosts, in addition to estimates of the divergence times, indicate that polystomatids from turtles radiated ca. 191 Myr ago, following a switch from an aquatic amniote presumed to be extinct to turtles, which diversified in the Upper Triassic. Within polystomatids from lissamphibians, we observe a polytomy of four lineages, namely caudatan, neobatrachian, pelobatid and pipid polystomatid lineages, which occurred ca. 246 Myr ago according to molecular divergence-time estimates. This suggests that the first polystomatids of amphibians originated during the evolution and diversification of lissamphibian orders and suborders ca. 250 Myr ago. Finally, we report a vicariance event between two major groups of neobatrachian polystomes, which is probably linked to the separation of South America from Africa ca. 100 Myr ago.
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- Olivier Verneau
- Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, UMR 5555 du CNRS, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.
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Montgelard C, Bentz S, Tirard C, Verneau O, Catzeflis FM. Molecular systematics of sciurognathi (rodentia): the mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes support the Anomaluroidea (Pedetidae and Anomaluridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2002; 22:220-33. [PMID: 11820843 DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2001.1056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nucleotide sequence data from the mitochondrial 12S rRNA and cytochrome b genes were used to analyze phylogenetic relationships among sciurognath rodents. Our sample taxa included representatives of 11 sciurognath and 3 hystricognath families with two marsupial species, Didelphis virginiana and Macropus robustus, as outgroups. The dataset was analyzed using both maximum-parsimony (weighted and unweighted) and likelihood methods. Three suprafamilial groupings are strongly supported: Geomyidae + Heteromyidae (Geomyoidea), Sciuridae + Aplodontidae (Sciuroidea), and Pedetidae + Anomaluridae (Anomaluroidea). Although moderately supported, two sister group relationships were identified between Gliridae and Sciuroidea and between Castor and Geomyoidea. In contrast to previous nuclear DNA evidence, the evolutionary affinities between Ctenodactylidae and Hystricognathi (Ctenohystrica) and between Muridae and Dipodidae (Myodonta) are not supported by the mitochondrial data. Molecular divergence dates based on the combined data were estimated for suprafamilial groupings and are discussed in the light of current morphological and paleontological interpretations of rodent phylogeny.
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- Claudine Montgelard
- Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vertébrés (EPHE), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, UMR 5554 (CNRS), Université Montpellier II, CC064, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France
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Morand S, Simková A, Matejusová I, Plaisance L, Verneau O, Desdevises Y. Investigating patterns may reveal processes: evolutionary ecology of ectoparasitic monogeneans. Int J Parasitol 2002; 32:111-9. [PMID: 11812488 DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7519(01)00347-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We reviewed several published and ongoing studies concerning monogenean communities. Patterns of species richness, host specificity, community structure and host--parasite coevolutionary interaction were carefully analysed, and hypotheses of evolutionary processes are proposed. The structuring of monogenean communities seems to be related to both ecological and historical constraints. The database supports an absence of intra- and interspecific competition in monogeneans. Species richness seems to be more due to host characteristics than to parasite interactions. Monogeneans seem to specialise on large hosts, leading to greater species richness on those hosts. The morphometric evolution of attachment and copulatory organs support the hypothesis of a reproductive segregation among conspecifics parasitising the same host(s). It also suggests the existence of concurrent adaptive and non-adaptive processes. The general absence of a coevolutionary pattern between host and parasites also suggests the constraints of history without dismissing the influences of ecological factors in the structuring of the communities. More generally, we strengthen the need to study the structure of communities in a phylogenetic context.
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- Serge Morand
- Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Mediterraneenne, UMR 5555 du CNRS, Universite de Perpignan, Avenue de Villeneuve, 66860 Cedex, Perpignan, France.
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The origin and the evolution of Schistosomatidae species, due to their medical importance (responsible of the second most important human parasitosis after malaria), arouse a great interest. A combination of phylogenetic studies using several molecular markers has provided support for the traditional grouping and evolutionary inferences derived from morphological and biological data. The genus Schistosoma, which comprises all species parasitizing Man, is generally split into four evolutionary lineages (mansoni, haematobium, indicum and japonicum lineages). The group of African schistosomes (including mansoni and haematobium lineages) appears very divergent from the japonicum lineage. Recent phylogenetic studies using partial 28S rDNA sequencing and including Orientobilharzia turkestanicum from Iran, an Asian parasite of livestock, found, unexpectedly, that this species nested among Schistosoma species, thus rendering the latter paraphyletic, and suggested an Asian origin for the Schistosoma genus. The present work re-examines the question of the geographical origin of human schistosomes by analysing a new genomic marker (ITS2) as well as by including the use of O. turkestanicum originating from northeastern China. Our results are in agreement with previous work using 28S, in demonstrating that Schistosoma is not monophyletic. However, O. turkestanicum, whatever the method of analysis used (distance or parsimony), was grouped with members of the japonicum group to the exclusion of African Schistosoma species. Then, our data argue strongly for the need for further phylogenetic study including new taxa and new genomic sequences before definitely concluding either an Asian or African origin for the genus Schistosoma.
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- G Zhang
- Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, 207 Rui Jin Er Lu, Shangai, China
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Loreille O, Roumat E, Verneau O, Bouchet F, Hänni C. Ancient DNA from Ascaris: extraction amplification and sequences from eggs collected in coprolites. Int J Parasitol 2001; 31:1101-6. [PMID: 11429174 DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7519(01)00214-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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On the Middle-Age site of Namur (Belgium) the analysis of coprolites revealed the presence of many well-preserved Ascaris eggs. Following rehydratation of the coprolite samples, 104 eggs were collected and extracted with an ultrasonication and phenol-chloroform based method. Three overlapping fragments of the 18S rRNA gene and one fragment of the cytochrome b gene have been reproducibly amplified, cloned and sequenced. The analysis of these sequences confirms the identification of the eggs as coming from Ascaris. Our study reveals that coprolites can be an interesting source of parasites that can be readily identified using molecular approaches. The study of ancient DNA from helminth parasites is of interest as it may answer long-standing questions in the history of infectious diseases and gives a possibility to compare these ancient sequences with those of modern populations.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Ascaris/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Belgium
- Cytochrome b Group/chemistry
- Cytochrome b Group/genetics
- DNA, Helminth/chemistry
- DNA, Helminth/genetics
- DNA, Helminth/isolation & purification
- Feces/parasitology
- Fossils
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Paleopathology/methods
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/isolation & purification
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- O Loreille
- CNRS UMR 5534, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Cedex, Villeurbanne, France
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