Morphologic, Pathologic, and Genetic Investigations ofBolbophorusSpecies Affecting Cultured Channel Catfish in the Mississippi Delta
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
- Vol. 14 (4) , 235-246
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8667(2002)014<0235:mpagio>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Trematodes belonging to the genus Bolbophorus have recently been reported as the cause of substantial morbidity and mortality in cultured channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus in Mississippi and Louisiana. Previous investigators identified only a single species, B. confusus. In this investigation, genetic techniques were used to identify all stages of the parasite in all of its hosts. The 18s rRNA genes from specimens collected in Mississippi were sequenced and compared; this analysis revealed that there are two distinct species, B. damnificus (previously identified as B. confusus) and another, undescribed species. (Phylogenetic analysis indicated that a third species, B. levantinus, is also closely related to the Mississippi species.) Species-specific polymerase chain reaction assays capable of identifying and differentiating between these two parasites were developed. Both species were found to infect the first intermediate host (the ram's horn snail Planorbella trivolvis) in commercial channel c...Keywords
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