Molecular biological studies of adult and metacercarial stages of Petasiger exaeretus Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae)

Cech, Gábor and Molnár, Kálmán and Székely, Csaba (2017) Molecular biological studies of adult and metacercarial stages of Petasiger exaeretus Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae). Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 65 (2). pp. 198-207. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

Molnár et al. (2015) reported two types of echinostomatid metacercariae in the lateral line organ of Hungarian fish species. Type 1 metacercariae possessed 27 collar spines and 16 uniform and three larger dorsal spines, whereas Type 2 metacercariae bore 27 collar spines and 19 equal-sized dorsal spines. In the recent work, molecular studies carried out on the ITS region and partial 28S rDNA sequences of two types of echinostomatid metacercariae and the sequences of adult stages of the species of Petasiger Dietz, 1909 collected from cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo L.) showed that some of the Type 2 metacercariae corresponded to Petasiger exaeretus Dietz, 1909, whereas other morphologically similar metacercariae were identified as Petasiger phalacrocoracis (Yamaguti, 1939). The sequences of the Type 1 metacercariae with three larger dorsal spines could not be identified with any of the known sequences from echinostomatid trematodes.

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