A new microsporidium Percutemincola moriokae gen. nov., sp. nov. from Oscheius tipulae: A novel model of microsporidia-nematode associations
| Autor: | Takahiro Tanji, Eisuke Kuroda, Kenji Nishikori, Ayako Ohashi-Kobayashi, Davin H. E. Setiamarga, Hirohisa Shiraishi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Vittaforma Nematoda Microbiology Host-Parasite Interactions 03 medical and health sciences Monophyly Subcutaneous Tissue Japan Disease Transmission Infectious Animals Clade Caenorhabditis elegans Phylogeny Soil Microbiology biology Spores Fungal biology.organism_classification Spore Microsporidium Intestines Microscopy Electron 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Nematode Microsporidia Enterocytozoon Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology |
| Zdroj: | Parasitology. 145(14) |
| ISSN: | 1469-8161 |
| Popis: | Here, we describe a new microsporidiumPercutemincola moriokaegen. nov., sp. nov., which was discovered in the intestinal and hypodermal cells of a wild strain of the nematodeOscheius tipulaethat inhabits in the soil of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The spores ofPe. moriokaehad an average size of 1.0 × 3.8µm and 1.3 × 3.2µm in the intestine and hypodermis, respectively, and electron microscopy revealed that they exhibited distinguishing features with morphological diversity in the hypodermis. Isolated spores were able to infect a reference strain ofO. tipulae(CEW1) through horizontal transmission but not the nematodeCaenorhabditis elegans. Upon infection, the spores were first observed in the hypodermis and then in the intestine the following day, suggesting a unique infectious route among nematode-infective microsporidia. Molecular phylogenetic analysis grouped this new species with the recently identified nematode-infective parasitesEnteropsectraandPancytosporaforming a monophyletic sister clade toOrthosomellain clade IV, which also includes human pathogens such asEnterocytozoonandVittaforma. We believe that this newly discovered species and its host could have application as a new model in microsporidia–nematode association studies. |
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