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First report of Ovipleistophora ovariae and O. diplostomuri in China provides new insights into the intraspecific genetic variation and extends their distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2021

Meiqi Weng Open the ORCID record for Meiqi Weng [Opens in a new window] ,
Derong Xie ,
Qianqian Zhang ,
Aihua Li  and
Jinyong Zhang Open the ORCID record for Jinyong Zhang [Opens in a new window]
Meiqi Weng
Affiliation:
The Laboratory of Aquatic Parasitology, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Qingdao Agricultural University, 266237 Qingdao, China Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Diseases Control, Ministry of Agriculture and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049, China
Derong Xie
Affiliation:
The Laboratory of Aquatic Parasitology, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Qingdao Agricultural University, 266237 Qingdao, China Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Diseases Control, Ministry of Agriculture and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049, China
Qianqian Zhang*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Diseases Control, Ministry of Agriculture and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
Aihua Li
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Diseases Control, Ministry of Agriculture and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
Jinyong Zhang*
Affiliation:
The Laboratory of Aquatic Parasitology, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Qingdao Agricultural University, 266237 Qingdao, China
*
Author for correspondence: Jinyong Zhang, E-mail: [email protected]
Author for correspondence: Jinyong Zhang, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Microsporidia of the genus Ovipleistophora are generally parasites of fishes and aquatic crustaceans. In the current study, Ovipleistophora diplostomuri and O. ovariae were firstly reported from Culter alburnus and Xenocypris argentea and Parabramis pekinensis, respectively. Both of them exclusively infected fish ovary and were morphologically, ultrastructurally and genetically characterized. Sporogony occurred in direct contact with the host cell cytoplasm and sporophorous vesicles were not observed for the new isolates of these two Ovipleistophora species. Spores of O. ovariae were for the first time observed to be dimorphic. Genetic analysis indicated that the genetic variation in the ITS and LSU sequences was distinct among between-host O. diplostomuri isolates. High sequence variation in ITS sequence suggests that it can be a reliable molecular marker to explore the population genetics of O. diplostomuri. This is the first report of these two Ovipleistophora species in China which extends their host and geographical range.

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FishmicrosporidiaovaryOvipleistophora
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Parasitology , Volume 149 , Issue 3 , March 2022 , pp. 314 - 324
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