The helminth parasites of two sympatric species of the genus Apodemus (Rodentia: Muridae) from south-eastern Slovakia

0345603 - ÚBO 2011 CZ eng A - Abstrakt
Ondríková, J. - Miklisová, D. - Ribas, Alexis - Stanko, M.
The helminth parasites of two sympatric species of the genus Apodemus (Rodentia: Muridae) from south-eastern Slovakia.
Zoologické dny Praha 2010: sborník abstraktů z konference 11.-12. února 2010. Brno: Ústav biologie obratlovců AV ČR, 2010 - (Bryja, J.; Zasadil, P.). s. 163. ISBN 978-80-87189-07-8.
[Zoologické dny. 11.02.2010-12.02.2010, Praha]
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z60930519
Klíčová slova: helminths * rodents * Slovakia
Kód oboru RIV: EG - Zoologie
http://zoo.ivb.cz/doc/sborniky/sbornik_2010.pdf

The helminths of two sympatric species of rodents, the striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius and the yellow-necked mouse, Apodemus flavicollis from south-eastern Slovakia were studied to determine whether there are similarities in the composition of the helminth fauna of two phylogenetically related species living in the same area. A total of twelve species of helminths were identified in these rodent populations, including Brachylaima sp. (Trematoda); Hymenolepis diminuta (Rudolphi 1819), Mesocestoides sp. larvae, Rodentolepis fraterna (Stiles 1906), Rodentolepis straminea (Goeze 1782), Skrjabinotaenia lobata (Baer 1925), Taenia taeniaeformis larvae (Batsch 1786) (Cestoda); Aonchotheca annulosa (Dujardin 1845), Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Dujardin 1845), Heterakis spumosa Schneider 1866, Mastophorus muris (Gmelin, 1790) and Syphacia stroma (Linstow 1884) (Nematoda). In A. agrarius, H. polygyrus was the most prevalent as well as the most abundant helminth, but R. fraterna was the species with the highest mean intensity. In contrast, S. stroma dominated the A. flavicollis helminth fauna with the highest prevalence, mean abundance and mean intensity. Both rodent populations harboured nine helminth species, though the mean species richness was significantly higher in A. agrarius than in A. flavicollis. The analysis of helminth diversity at both component and infracommunity level revealed differences between the two rodent populations being probably related to specific host ecology.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0186838