Chemotactic and chemokinetic activities of Saprolegnia parasitica toward different metabolites and fish tissue extracts

Mycoscience

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-162

  El Feki, Moustafa ^a,b   Hatai, Kishio ^b   Hussein, Mortada M A ^b,c  

^a Minia University ^*  (Egypt)

^b NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Beni Suef University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Chemokinesis; Chemotaxis

Indexed keywords

SAPROLEGNIA; SAPROLEGNIA PARASITICA; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0038117855     PISSN: 13403540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10267-002-0089-5     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Alexopoulos CJ (1962) Introductory mycology, 2nd edn. Willey, New York
2. El-Feki MA (1987) Studies on the host-parasite interaction between carp and Saprolegnia. Ph.D. thesis, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK
3. El-Feki MA (1991) Ulcerative dermal necrosis (UDN). A freshwater fish disease. Pathology of lesions. Proc Zool AR Egypt 23:31-36
4. El-Feki MA (1994) The role of chemoattractants in phagocytosis of catfish (Clarias lazera). Bull Fac Sci Assiut Univ 23:185-200
5. El-Feki MA, Zahran WM, Gabri MS, Reffat EH (1995) Haemogramme changes of enhanced catfish (Claris lazera) by Saprolegnia ferax-derived antigens. Int Sci Conf Al-Azhar Univ Fac Sci Cairo 1:135-149
6. Fraser GC, Callinan RB, Calder LM (1992) Aphanomyces species associated with red spot disease: an ulcerative disease of estuarine fish from eastern Australia. J Fish Dis 15:173-181
7. Gearing A, Rimmer JJ (1985) Amphibian lymphokines: I. Leucocyte chemotactic factors produced by amphibian spleen cells following antigenic and mitogenic challenge in vitro. Dev Comp Immunol 9:281-290
8. Halsall DM (1976) Zoospore chemotaxsis in Australian isolates of Phytophthora species. Can J Microbiol 22:409-422
9. Kitancharoen N, Hatai K (1996) Experimental infection of Saprolegnia spp. in rainbow trout eggs. Fish Pathol 31:49-50
10. Kitancharoen N, Hatai K (1998) Some biochemical characteristics of fungi isolated from salmonid eggs. Mycoscience 39:249-255
11. Lehnen LP, Powell MJ (1989) The role of kinetosome-associated organelles in the attachment of encysting zoospores of Saprolegnia ferax to substrates. Protoplasma 149:163-174
12. Lilly JH, Roberts RJ (1997) Pathogenicity and culture studies comparing the Aphanomyces involved in epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) with other similar fungi. J Fish Dis 20:135-144
13. Muehlstein LK, Amon JP, Leffer DL (1988) Chemotaxis in the marine fungus Rhizophydium littoreum spp. Environ Microbiol 54:1668-1672
14. Obenauf SD, Smith SH (1985) Chemotaxis of nurse shark leucocytes. Dev Comp Immunol 9:221-230
15. Ogata H, Arai S (1985) Comparison of free amino acids contents in plasma, whole blood and erythrocytes of carp, coho salmon, rainbow trout and channel catfish. Bull Jpn Soc Fish 51:1181-1186
16. Picketing AD (1974) The distribution of mucous cells in the epidermis of the brown trout Salmo trutta (L.). J Fish Biol 6:111-118
17. Pickering AD, Macy DJ (1977) Structure, histochemistry and the effect of handling on the mucous cells of the char Salvelinus alpinus (L.). J Fish Biol 10:505-512
18. Rand TG, Muden D (1993) Chemotaxis of zoospores of two fish-pathogenic strains of Saprolegnia diclina towards salmonid egg chorion extracts and selected amino acids and sugars. J Aquat Anim Health 5:240-245
19. Royle DJ, Hickman CJ (1964) Analysis of factors govering in vitro accumulation of zoospores of Pythium aphanidermatum on roots. I. Behaviour of zoospores. Can J Microbiol 10:151-162
20. Smith SN, Cohan R, Howitt SG, Armstrong RA (1994) Proteolytic activity amongst selected Saprolegnia species. Mycol Res 98:389-395
21. Willoughby LG, Pickering AD (1977) Viable saprolegniaceae spores on the epidermis of the salmonid fish Salmo trutta and char Salvelinius alpinus. Trans Br Mycol Soc 68:91-95
22. Wood SE, Willoughby LG, Beaks GW (1987) Experimental studies on uptake and interaction of spores of the Saprolegnia parasitica complex with external mucous of brown trout (Salmo trutta). Trans Br Mycol Soc 90:63-73
23. Yuasa K, Hatai K (1996) Some biochemical characteristics of the genera Saprolegnia, Achyla and Aphanomyces isolated from fishes with fungus infection. Mycoscience 37:477-479