Molecular evidence of infection with air sac nematodes in the great tit (Parus major) and the captive-bred gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)

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Dolinská, S. - Drutovič, Dávid - Mlynárčik, P. - Königová, A. - Molnár, L. - Urda Dolinská, M. - Štrkolcová, G. - Várady, M.
Molecular evidence of infection with air sac nematodes in the great tit (Parus major) and the captive-bred gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus).
Parasitology Research. Roč. 117, č. 12 (2018), s. 3851-3856. ISSN 0932-0113. E-ISSN 1432-1955
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985904
Klíčová slova: air sac nematodes * Serratospiculum * Serratospiculoides
Obor OECD: Genetics and heredity (medical genetics to be 3)
Impakt faktor: 2.067, rok: 2018

Serratospiculiasis is a parasitic disease caused by filariid nematodes of the genus Serratospiculum that parasitise the air sacs of various species of falcons, bald eagles and Cooper's hawks around the world. An infection with Serratospiculum was recently confirmed in a nonspecific host, the great tit, in Slovakia. Parasitic material from this host was fixed for molecular analysis. Nematode found in the air sacs from a captive-bred gyrfalcon was also stored. Analysis of small subunit (18S) ribosomal DNA (18S rDNA) gene indicated that sequences from Serratospiculum sp. and Serratospiculoides amaculata were closely related to a reference sequence from Serratospiculum tendo, in agreement with morphology. This study is the first to generate molecular data and infer the phylogenetic position of S. amaculata as the first representative of the genus Serratospiculoides.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0289514