Sarcocystis in the birds family Corvidae with description of Sarcocystis cornixi sp. nov. from the hooded crow (Corvus cornix)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 329-336

  Kutkienė, Liuda ^a   Prakas, Petras ^a   Sruoga, Aniolas ^a   Butkauskas, Dalius ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; CORVUS CORNIX; CROW; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS CORNIXI; TONOPLAST;

ANSER ALBIFRONS; AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE CORNIX; FRENKELIA MICROTI; SARCOCYSTIDAE; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS MURIS; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SARCOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 58649123125     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1196-9     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. SM Aljanabi I Martinez 1997 Universal and rapid salt-extraction of high quality genomic DNA for PCR-based techniques Nucleic Acids Res 25 4692 4693
2. Ž Černá 1984 The role of birds as definitive hosts and intermediate hosts of heteroxenous coccidians J Protozool 31 579 581
3. SS Dahlgren B Gjerde 2007 Genetic characterisation of six Sarcocystis species from reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Norway based on the small subunit rRNA gene Vet Parasitol 146 204 213
4. SS Dahlgren B Gjerde 2008 Sarcocystis in moose (Alces alces): molecular identification and phylogeny of six Sarcocystis species in moose, and a morphological description of three new species Parasitol Res 103 93 110
5. SS Dahlgren B Gjerde K Skirnisson B Gudmundsdottir 2007 Morphological and molecular identification of three species of Sarcocystis in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Iceland Vet Parasitol 149 191 198
6. D Doležel B Koudela M Jirků V Hypša M Oborník J Votýpka D Modrý JR Šlapeta J Lukeš 1999 Phylogenetic analysis of Sarcocystis spp. of mammals and reptiles supports the coevolution of Sarcocystis spp. with their final hosts Int J Parasitol 29 795 798
7. TE Drouin JL Mahrt 1979 The prevalence of Sarcocystis Lankester, 1882, in some bird species in western Canada, with notes on its life cycle Can J Zool 57 1915 1921
8. Dubey JP, Speer CA, Fayer R (1989) Sarcocystosis of animals and man. CRC, Boca Raton, FL
9. NI Dylko 1962 Distribution of Sarcosporidia among wild vertebrates in Belorussia Dokl Akad Nauk 6 399 400
10. HM Elsheikha DW Lacher LS Mansfield 2005 Phylogenetic relationships of Sarcocystis neurona of horses and opossums to other cyst-forming coccidia deduced from SSU rRNA gene sequences Parasitol Res 97 345 357
11. AC Jeffries B Schnitzler AO Heydorn AM Johnson AM Tenter 1997 Identification of synapomorphic characters in the genus Sarcocystis based on 18S rDNA sequences comparison J Eukaryot Microbiol 44 388 392
12. O Krone M Rudolph W Jakob 2000 Protozoa in the breast muscle of raptors in Germany Acta Protozool 39 35 42
13. L Kutkienė A Sruoga 2004 Sarcocystis spp. in birds of the order Anseriformes Parasitol Res 92 171 172
14. L Kutkienė A Sruoga D Butkauskas 2006 Sarcocystis sp. from white-fronted goose (Anser albiforns): cyst morphology and life cycle studies Parasitol Res 99 562 565
15. DS Lindsay BL Blagburn 1999 Prevalence of encysted apicomplexans in muscles of raptors Vet Parasitol 80 341 344
16. Logminas V (comp.) (1990) Fauna of Lithuania. Aves 1. Mokslas, Vilnius
17. H Mehlhorn AO Heydorn 1978 The Sarcosporidia (Protozoa, Sporozoa): life cycle and fine structure Adv Parasitol 16 43 91
18. NB Mugridge DA Morrison AM Johnson K Luton JP Dubey J Votýpka AM Tenter 1999 Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Frenkelia: a review of its history and new knowledge gained from comparison of large subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene sequences Int J Parasitol 29 957 972
19. NB Mugridge DA Morrison T Jäkel AR Heckeroth AM Tenter AM Johnson 2000 Effects of sequence alignment and structural domains of ribosomal DNA on phylogeny reconstruction for the protozoan family Sarcocystidae Mol Biol Evol 17 1842 1853
20. BL Munday WJ Hartley KE Harrigan PJA Presidente DL Obendorf 1979 Sarcocystis and related organisms in Australian wildlife: II. Survey findings in birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish J Wildl Dis 15 57 73
21. K Odening M Stolte G Walter I Bockhardt 1994 The European badger (Carnivora: Mustelidae) as intermediate host of further three Sarcocystis species (Sporozoa) Parasite 1 23 30
22. Pak SM, Eshtokina NV (1984) Sarcosporidians of birds. In: Panin VJ (ed) Sarcosporidians of animals in Kazakhstan. Nauka, Alma-Ata, pp 150-168
23. JR Šlapeta D Modrý J Votýpka M Jirků B Koudela J Lukeš 2001 Multiple origin of the dihomoxenous life cycle in Sarcosporidia Int J Parasitol 31 413 417
24. JR Šlapeta D Modrý J Votýpka M Jirků J Lukeš B Koudela 2003 Evolutionary relationships among cyst-forming coccidia Sarcocystis spp. (Alveolata: Apicomplexa: Coccidea) in endemic African tree vipers and perspective for evolution of heteroxenous life cycle Mol Phylogenet Evol 27 464 475
25. K Tamura J Dudley M Nei S Kumar 2007 MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0 Mol Biol Evol 24 1596 1599
26. AM Tenter PR Baverstock AM Johnson 1992 Phylogenetic relationships of Sarcocystis species from sheep, goats, cattle and mice based on ribosomal RNA sequences Int J Parasitol 22 503 513
27. G Valkiūnas A Križanauskienė TA Iezhova O Hellgren S Bensch 2007 Molecular phylogenetic analysis of circumnuclear haemoproteids (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae) of sylviid birds, with description of Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi sp. nov J Parasitol 93 680 687
28. J Votýpka V Hypša M Jirků J Flegr J Vávra J Lukeš 1998 Molecular pyhlogenetic relatedness of Frenkelia spp. (Protozoa, Apicomplexa) to Sarcocystis falcatula Stiles 1893: is the genus Sarcocystis paraphyletic J Eukaryot Microbiol 45 1 137 141
29. H-H Wesemeier J Sedlaczek 1995 One known Sarcocystis species and two found for the first time in red deer and wapiti (Cervus elaphus) in Europe Appl Parasitol 36 245 251
30. ZQ Yang YX Zuo B Ding XW Chen J Luo YP Zhang 2001 Identification of Sarcocystis hominis-like (Protozoa: Sarcocystidae) cyst in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) based on 18S rRNA gene sequences J Parasitol 87 934 937