Morphological and molecular data for larval stages of four species of Petasiger Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) with an updated key to the known cercariae from the Palaearctic

0435205 - BC 2015 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Selbach, C. - Soldánová, Miroslava - Georgieva, Simona - Kostadinova, Aneta - Kalbe, M. - Sures, B.
Morphological and molecular data for larval stages of four species of Petasiger Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) with an updated key to the known cercariae from the Palaearctic.
Systematic Parasitology. Roč. 89, č. 2 (2014), s. 153-166. ISSN 0165-5752. E-ISSN 1573-5192
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Keywords : Grandivesicularis ishii * life cycle * Trematoda * Platyhelminthes * phylogeny
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology
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Large-tailed echinostomatid cercariae of the genus Petasiger Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) from the planorbid snails Gyraulus albus (Muller) and Planorbis planorbis (L.) collected in Germany and the Czech Republic and metacercariae from Gasterosteus aculeatus L. (Gasterosteiformes: Gasterosteidae) collected in Canada are characterised morphologically and molecularly. The rediae, cercariae and metacercariae are described in detail and compared with the existing data on the larval stages of Petasiger spp. Comparative molecular analyses using 28S rDNA and nad1 mitochondrial sequences supported the distinct status of four species of Petasiger. Molecular and morphological evidence for their distinction and an updated key to the known large-tailed cercariae of Petasiger from the Palaearctic are provided.
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