Folia Parasitologica 52[1/2] 163-172 (2005) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.021

Microsporidia in aquatic microcrustacea: the copepod microsporidium Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900 revisited

Jiří Vávra1, Miroslav Hyliš2, Miroslav Oborník1, Charles R. Vossbrinck3
1 Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 128 44 Prague 2, Czech Republic
3 Department of Soil and Water, Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA

Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900, a parasite of ovarial tissues of the copepod Cyclops vicinus Uljanin, 1875, was studied as a representative of aquatic-clade microsporidia which form "heteroinfectious spores" (spores not infective to the original host as opposed to "homoinfectious spores" which are infective for the original host) and which thus should require an alternate host. Several structural characters of this microsporidian are similar to those of copepod morphs of microsporidia infecting mosquitoes. However, small subunit ribosomal DNA phylogeny indicates that caddis flies (Insecta, Trichoptera) might be the alternate hosts of Marssoniella. Ultrastructural data obtained are used to redefine the genus Marssoniella Lemmermann, 1900 and its type species Marssoniella elegans.

Keywords: Microsporidia, Marssoniella, Cyclops vicinus, phylogeny, ultrastructure, Trichoptera

Received: September 29, 2004; Accepted: January 31, 2005; Published: May 1, 2005  Show citation

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Vávra, J., Hyliš, M., Oborník, M., & Vossbrinck, C.R. (2005). Microsporidia in aquatic microcrustacea: the copepod microsporidium Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900 revisited. Folia Parasitologica, 52(1-2), 163-172. doi: 10.14411/fp.2005.021
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