Two new species of Eimeria (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)

0507379 - BC 2020 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Hofmannová, L. - Jirků, Miloslav - Řeháková, M. - Kvičerová, J.
Two new species of Eimeria (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta).
European Journal of Protistology. Roč. 66, OCT 2018 (2018), s. 77-85. ISSN 0932-4739. E-ISSN 1618-0429
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Keywords : molecular characterization * apicomplexa * phylogenies * inference * timetree * coccidia * mrbayes * coi * Coccidia * orf 470 * Phylogeny * Primates * 18S rDNA
OECD category: Microbiology
Impact factor: 2.626, year: 2018
Method of publishing: Limited access
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Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) is a small nocturnal primate from the Philippines. Little is known about tarsier parasites, including coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae), a highly prevalent parasitic protist group in all vertebrate classes. Only 7 valid species of the genus Eimeria, seven species of lsospora and 5 species of Cyclospora have been described in Primates. This study extends the number of coccidia known in primates by two new species obtained from faeces of Philippine tarsiers from Bohol Island. The newly described Eimeria syrichta n. sp. and Eimeria boholensis n. sp. differ morphologically from each other as well as from other coccidia reported from primates. Partial DNA sequences of three genes were obtained from oocysts of E. syrichta n. sp. and E. boholensis n. sp., and formed clusters according to their host specificity, however, there are no other sequentional data of coccidia from primates, except for the genus Cyclospora, which clusters inside the chicken eimerians, and Cystoisospora belli, which is phylogenetically related to Sarcocystidae. More molecular data on coccidia infecting primates are needed for further discussion. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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