Morphological and molecular characterization of Calicophoron raja (Nasmark, 1937) collected from wild Bovidae in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Paramphistomes, commonly known as rumen flukes, are digenean parasites that infect ruminants. Accurate morphological identification of paramphistome species is challenging and often neglected. For instance, it requires sagittal midline sections of adult flukes, which are difficult to prepare. Therefore, the majority of the genetic information on paramphistomes found in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database is not supported by morphological descriptions, and the DNA barcodes of paramphistome species remain unreliable. In the present study, both morphological and molecular characterizations were simultaneously performed to ensure the reliability of the DNA information for the paramphistome species Calichophoron raja (Näsmark, 1937). The morphological characteristics of the sa

SUBMITTER: Ikeuchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9420427 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature