Generalist Eimeria species in rodents: Multilocus analyses indicate inadequate resolution of established markers.

ABSTRACT: Intracellular parasites of the genus Eimeria are described as tissue/host-specific. Phylogenetic classification of rodent Eimeria suggested that some species have a broader host range than previously assumed. We explore whether Eimeria spp. infecting house mice are misclassified by the most widely used molecular markers due to a lack of resolution, or whether, instead, these parasite species are indeed infecting multiple host species.With the commonly used markers (18S/COI), we recovered monophyletic clades of E. falciformis and E. vermiformis from Mus that included E. apionodes identified in other rodent host species (Apodemus spp., Myodes glareolus, and Microtus arvalis). A lack of internal resolution in these clades c

SUBMITTER: Jarquin-Diaz VH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029063 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature