Evolutionary plasticity in coccidia – Striking morphological similarity of unrelated coccidia (Apicomplexa) from related hosts: Eimeria spp. from African and Asian pangolins (Mammalia: Pholidota)

0396827 - BC 2014 RIV DE eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Jirků, Miloslav - Kvičerová, Jana - Modrý, David - Hypša, Václav
Evolutionary plasticity in coccidia – Striking morphological similarity of unrelated coccidia (Apicomplexa) from related hosts: Eimeria spp. from African and Asian pangolins (Mammalia: Pholidota).
Protist. Roč. 164, č. 4 (2013), s. 470-481. ISSN 1434-4610. E-ISSN 1618-0941
Grant ostatní: GA ČR(CZ) GA206/08/1019
Institucionální podpora: RVO:60077344
Klíčová slova: COI * endogenous development * ORF * phylogeny * SEM * 18S rDNA
Kód oboru RIV: EB - Genetika a molekulární biologie
Impakt faktor: 3.558, rok: 2013

Two morphologically similar, but phylogenetically unrelated Eimeria species from ancient mammals, African Tree Pangolin Phataginus tricuspis and Sunda Pangolin Manis javanica (Pholidota: Manidae), from two distant biogeographic realms (Afrotropical and Oriental), are characterized and compared morphologically and molecularly. Phylogenetic analyses produced an unstable topology. However, while precise position of the two Eimeria species from pangolins could not be firmly established due to the lack of related taxa, it is evident that they are not closely related and do not fall into any of the so far recognized eimerian lineages. Moreover, an eimerian found in P. tricuspis is described as a new species Eimeria nkaka n. sp., based on morphology of oocysts, endogenous developmental stages and sequence data
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0224544