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Title (eng)
Parasites of firebugs in Austria with focus on the "micro"-diversity of the cosmopolitan trypanosomatid Leptomonas pyrrhocoris
Author
Alexei Yu Kostygov
Author
Ľubomíra Chmelová
Author
Julia Reichl
Author
Alexandra Jászayová
Author
Jan Votýpka
Author
Hans-Peter Fuehrer
Author
Vyacheslav Yurchenko
Abstract (eng)
In this work, we investigated parasites of the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus in Austria and demonstrated that in addition to the extensively studied Leptomonas pyrrhocoris, it can also be infected by Blastocrithidia sp. and by a mermithid, which for the first time has been characterized using molecular methods. This diversity can be explained by the gregarious lifestyle, as well as the coprophagous and cannibalistic behavior of the insect hosts that makes them susceptible to various parasites. In addition, we showed no tight association of the L. pyrrhocoris haplotypes and geographical locations (at least, considering the relatively small scale of locations in Austria) implying that the natural populations of L. pyrrhocoris are mixed due to the mobility of their firebug hosts.
Keywords (eng)
Multiple Sequence AlignmentMonoxenous TrypanosomatidsCosta-RicaHeteropteraHemiptera
Type (eng)
journal article
Language
[eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:4243
DOI
10.1007/s00436-023-08080-2
Is in series
Title (eng)
Parasitology Research
Volume
123
Issue
1
ISSN
0932-0113
Issued
2024
Number of pages
9
Publication
Springer
Version type (eng)
version of record (published version)
Date issued
2024
Access rights (eng)
open access
License
CC BY 4.0 International
Rights statement (eng)
© 2023. The Author(s)