Host-induced phenotypic plasticity in Saccocoelioides lamothei Aguirre-Macedo and Violante-Gonzalez, 2008 (Digenea: Haploporidae) a parasite of freshwater, brackish and marine fishes from Middle America.

ABSTRACT: Saccocoelioides is a genus of trematodes associated with fishes from the Americas. In the current research, morphologically distinct specimens of Saccocoelioides spp. were collected from six countries in Middle America. Specimens were sequenced using three molecular markers, the domains D1-D3 of the large subunit (LSU) from the nuclear rDNA, the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad1) from mitochondrial DNA. A total of 74 new sequences were compared and aligned with other sequences available in GenBank. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses were inferred from the LSU and cox1 datasets, revealing unequivocally that all the specimens correspond to S. lamothei. A haplotype network was built with 119 sequences of t

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Garcia MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10950380 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature