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Schizorhynchia Meixner, 1928 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) of the Iberian Peninsula, with a Description of Four New Species from Portugal
European Journal of Taxonomy 595: 1–17 ISSN 2118-9773 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.595 www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu 2020 · Gobert S. et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Research article urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F81A7282-A44B-4E70-9A44-FE8F67E5C1EA Schizorhynchia Meixner, 1928 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) of the Iberian Peninsula, with a description of four new species from Portugal Stefan GOBERT 1, Marlies MONNENS 2,*, Lise EERDEKENS 3, Ernest SCHOCKAERT 4, Patrick REYGEL 5 & Tom ARTOIS 6 1,2,3,4,5,6 Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Agoralaan Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. * Corresponding author: [email protected] 1 Email: [email protected] 3 Email: [email protected] 4 Email: [email protected] 5 Email: [email protected] 6 Email: [email protected] 1 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:5A55D3D7-B529-41FA-AA02-EE554F4A8CF9 2 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:782F71E0-EF84-48DA-BE72-8E205CB78EAC 3 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:11C7606C-7677-4F9B-9295-604DABFC1DCA 4 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:73DA9DFC-69DB-4168-88FA-B0ED54C88DDB 5 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:481991C8-BA09-457F-81EA-937C7A3DFD91 6 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:2EDDE35C-A2F0-4CA2-84AA-2A7893C40AC4 Abstract. During several sampling campaigns in the regions of Galicia and Andalusia in Spain and the Algarve region in Portugal, specimens of twelve species of schizorhynch rhabdocoels were collected. Four of these are new to science: three species of Proschizorhynchus (P. algarvensis sp. nov., P. arnautsae sp. -
Atp8 Is in the Ground Pattern of Flatworm Mitochondrial Genomes Bernhard Egger1* , Lutz Bachmann2 and Bastian Fromm3
Egger et al. BMC Genomics (2017) 18:414 DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-3807-2 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Atp8 is in the ground pattern of flatworm mitochondrial genomes Bernhard Egger1* , Lutz Bachmann2 and Bastian Fromm3 Abstract Background: To date, mitochondrial genomes of more than one hundred flatworms (Platyhelminthes) have been sequenced. They show a high degree of similarity and a strong taxonomic bias towards parasitic lineages. The mitochondrial gene atp8 has not been confidently annotated in any flatworm sequenced to date. However, sampling of free-living flatworm lineages is incomplete. We addressed this by sequencing the mitochondrial genomes of the two small-bodied (about 1 mm in length) free-living flatworms Stenostomum sthenum and Macrostomum lignano as the first representatives of the earliest branching flatworm taxa Catenulida and Macrostomorpha respectively. Results: We have used high-throughput DNA and RNA sequence data and PCR to establish the mitochondrial genome sequences and gene orders of S. sthenum and M. lignano. The mitochondrial genome of S. sthenum is 16,944 bp long and includes a 1,884 bp long inverted repeat region containing the complete sequences of nad3, rrnS, and nine tRNA genes. The model flatworm M. lignano has the smallest known mitochondrial genome among free- living flatworms, with a length of 14,193 bp. The mitochondrial genome of M. lignano lacks duplicated genes, however, tandem repeats were detected in a non-coding region. Mitochondrial gene order is poorly conserved in flatworms, only a single pair of adjacent ribosomal or protein-coding genes – nad4l-nad4 – was found in S. sthenum and M. -
Digenea, Haploporoidea): the Case of Atractotrema Sigani, Intestinal Parasite of Siganus Lineatus Abdoulaye J
First spermatological study in the Atractotrematidae (Digenea, Haploporoidea): the case of Atractotrema sigani, intestinal parasite of Siganus lineatus Abdoulaye J. S. Bakhoum, Yann Quilichini, Jean-Lou Justine, Rodney A. Bray, Jordi Miquel, Carlos Feliu, Cheikh T. Bâ, Bernard Marchand To cite this version: Abdoulaye J. S. Bakhoum, Yann Quilichini, Jean-Lou Justine, Rodney A. Bray, Jordi Miquel, et al.. First spermatological study in the Atractotrematidae (Digenea, Haploporoidea): the case of Atractotrema sigani, intestinal parasite of Siganus lineatus. Parasite, EDP Sciences, 2015, 22, pp.26. 10.1051/parasite/2015026. hal-01299921 HAL Id: hal-01299921 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01299921 Submitted on 11 Apr 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License Parasite 2015, 22,26 Ó A.J.S. Bakhoum et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2015 DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2015026 Available online at: www.parasite-journal.org RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS First spermatological study in the Atractotrematidae (Digenea, Haploporoidea): the case of Atractotrema sigani, intestinal parasite of Siganus lineatus Abdoulaye J. S. Bakhoum1,2, Yann Quilichini1,*, Jean-Lou Justine3, Rodney A. -
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(Digenea, Haploporoidea\): the Case of Atractotrema
Parasite 2015, 22,26 Ó A.J.S. Bakhoum et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2015 DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2015026 Available online at: www.parasite-journal.org RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS First spermatological study in the Atractotrematidae (Digenea, Haploporoidea): the case of Atractotrema sigani, intestinal parasite of Siganus lineatus Abdoulaye J. S. Bakhoum1,2, Yann Quilichini1,*, Jean-Lou Justine3, Rodney A. Bray4, Jordi Miquel5,6, Carlos Feliu5,6, Cheikh T. Bâ2, and Bernard Marchand1 1 CNRS-Università di Corsica, UMR 6134-SPE, SERME Service d’Étude et de Recherche en Microscopie Électronique, Corte 20250, Corsica, France 2 Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Management of Ecosystems, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, BP 5055, Dakar, Senegal 3 ISYEB, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR7205 CNRS, EPHE, MNHN, UPMC), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 51, 55 rue Buffon 75231, Paris cedex 05, France 4 Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London, UK 5 Laboratori de Parasitologia, Departament de Microbiologia i Parasitologia Sanitàries, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII, sn, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 6 Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Received 14 August 2015, Accepted 25 September 2015, Published online 16 October 2015 Abstract – The ultrastructural organization of the mature spermatozoon of the digenean Atractotrema sigani (from Siganus lineatus off New Caledonia) was investigated by transmission electron microscopy. The male gamete of A. sigani exhibits the general morphology described in digeneans with the presence of two axonemes of different lengths showing the 9 + ‘‘1’’ pattern of the Trepaxonemata, a nucleus, two mitochondria, two bundles of parallel cor- tical microtubules, external ornamentation, spine-like bodies and granules of glycogen. -
Polycladida Phylogeny and Evolution: Integrating Evidence from 28S Rdna and Morphology
Org Divers Evol (2017) 17:653–678 DOI 10.1007/s13127-017-0327-5 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Polycladida phylogeny and evolution: integrating evidence from 28S rDNA and morphology Juliana Bahia1,2 & Vinicius Padula3 & Michael Schrödl1,2 Received: 29 August 2016 /Accepted: 12 December 2016 /Published online: 11 May 2017 # Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik 2017 Abstract Polyclad flatworms have a troubled classification Combining morphological and molecular evidence, we history, with two contradicting systems in use. They both rely redefined polyclad superfamilies. Acotylea contain on a ventral adhesive structure to define the suborders tentaculated and atentaculated groups and is now divided in Acotylea and Cotylea, but superfamilies were defined accord- three superfamilies. The suborder Cotylea can be divided in ing to eyespot arrangement (Prudhoe’s system) or prostatic five superfamilies. In general, there is a trait of anteriorization vesicle characters (Faubel’s system). Molecular data available of sensory structures, from the plesiomorphic acotylean body cover a very limited part of the known polyclad family diver- plan to the cotylean gross morphology. Traditionally used sity and have not allowed testing morphology-based classifi- characters, such as prostatic vesicle, eyespot distribution, cation systems on Polycladida yet. We thus sampled a suitable and type of pharynx, are all homoplastic and likely have mis- marker, partial 28S ribosomal DNA (rDNA), from led polyclad systematics so far. Polycladida (19 families and 32 genera), generating 136 new sequences and the first comprehensive genetic dataset on Keywords Platyhelminthes . Marine flatworms . Cotylea . polyclads. Our maximum likelihood (ML) analyses recovered Acotylea . Molecular phylogenetics . Morphology Polycladida, but the traditional suborders were not monophy- letic, as the supposedly acotyleans Cestoplana and Theama were nested within Cotylea; we suggest that these genera Introduction should be included in Cotylea. -
Atp8 Is in the Ground Pattern of Flatworm Mitochondrial Genomes Bernhard Egger1* , Lutz Bachmann2 and Bastian Fromm3
Egger et al. BMC Genomics (2017) 18:414 DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-3807-2 RESEARCHARTICLE Open Access Atp8 is in the ground pattern of flatworm mitochondrial genomes Bernhard Egger1* , Lutz Bachmann2 and Bastian Fromm3 Abstract Background: To date, mitochondrial genomes of more than one hundred flatworms (Platyhelminthes) have been sequenced. They show a high degree of similarity and a strong taxonomic bias towards parasitic lineages. The mitochondrial gene atp8 has not been confidently annotated in any flatworm sequenced to date. However, sampling of free-living flatworm lineages is incomplete. We addressed this by sequencing the mitochondrial genomes of the two small-bodied (about 1 mm in length) free-living flatworms Stenostomum sthenum and Macrostomum lignano as the first representatives of the earliest branching flatworm taxa Catenulida and Macrostomorpha respectively. Results: We have used high-throughput DNA and RNA sequence data and PCR to establish the mitochondrial genome sequences and gene orders of S. sthenum and M. lignano. The mitochondrial genome of S. sthenum is 16,944 bp long and includes a 1,884 bp long inverted repeat region containing the complete sequences of nad3, rrnS, and nine tRNA genes. The model flatworm M. lignano has the smallest known mitochondrial genome among free- living flatworms, with a length of 14,193 bp. The mitochondrial genome of M. lignano lacks duplicated genes, however, tandem repeats were detected in a non-coding region. Mitochondrial gene order is poorly conserved in flatworms, only a single pair of adjacent ribosomal or protein-coding genes – nad4l-nad4 – was found in S. sthenum and M. lignano that also occurs in other published flatworm mitochondrial genomes. -
Nuclear Genomic Signals of the ‘Microturbellarian’ Roots of Platyhelminth Evolutionary Innovation
Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Laumer, Christopher E, Andreas Hejnol, and Gonzalo Giribet. 2015. “Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation.” eLife 4 (1): e05503. doi:10.7554/eLife.05503. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05503. Published Version doi:10.7554/eLife.05503 Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:15034859 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA RESEARCH ARTICLE elifesciences.org Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation Christopher E Laumer1*, Andreas Hejnol2, Gonzalo Giribet1 1Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States; 2Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Abstract Flatworms number among the most diverse invertebrate phyla and represent the most biomedically significant branch of the major bilaterian clade Spiralia, but to date, deep evolutionary relationships within this group have been studied using only a single locus (the rRNA operon), leaving the origins of many key clades unclear. In this study, using a survey of genomes and transcriptomes representing all free-living flatworm orders, we provide resolution of platyhelminth interrelationships based on hundreds of nuclear protein-coding genes, exploring phylogenetic signal through concatenation as well as recently developed consensus approaches. -
Trematoda, Digenea, Fasciolidae) Est Décrite En Microscopie Électronique À Balayage (SEM) Et À Transmission (TEM)
3.4. ULTRASTRUCTURE DE LA SPERMIOGENESE ET DU SPERMATOZOÏDE DE LA DOUVE DU FOIE FASCIOLA HEPATICA L., 1758 (DIGENEA, FASCIOLIDAE) : MICROSCOPIE ELECTRONIQUE A TRANSMISSION ET A BALAYAGE, ET IMMUNOCYTOCHIMIE DE LA TUBULINE Résumé : L’ultrastructure de la spermiogenèse et du spermatozoïde de Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758 (Trematoda, Digenea, Fasciolidae) est décrite en microscopie électronique à balayage (SEM) et à transmission (TEM). Chez F. hepatica, la spermiogenèse suit le modèle général déjà décrit chez les Digenea. Cependant, une rotation flagellaire d’environ 120º est décrite pour la première fois chez cette espèce et chez les Digenea. Le spermatozoïde mature de F. hepatica est une cellule filiforme d’environ 275 µm de long. La technique de « whole mount » et des observations au microscope électronique à balayage nous ont permis de démontrer la disposition spiralée des axonèmes le long du corps spermatique. Le spermatozoïde présente les mêmes caractéristiques ultrastructurales que F. gigantica. Les caractères les plus intéressants de ce gamète mâle sont les suivants : l’expansion cytoplasmique dorso-latérale, l’ornementation externe de la membrane cytoplasmique et les corps épineux. La localisation de la tubuline au niveau du cytosquelette microtubulaire de F. hepatica est aussi analysée au moyen d’anticorps monoclonaux (anti-α-tubuline, anti-β-tubuline, anti-α-tubuline acétylée et anti-α-tubuline tyrosinée). Ainsi les doublets des axonèmes et les microtubules corticaux sont marqués par ces anti-tubulines. Par contre, aucun de ces anticorps n’a permis le marquage de l’élément central de l’axonème 9 + ‘1’ des Trepaxonemata. Mots clés : Ultrastructure, immunocytochimie, tubuline, spermiogenèse, spermatozoïde, Fasciola hepatica, Trematoda, Digenea, Fasciolidae Acta Parasitologica, 2003, 48(3), 182–194; ISSN 1230-2821 Copyright © 2003 W. -
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Species List, Version 2017-12-22
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Species List, version 2017-12-22 Kenai National Wildlife Refuge biology staff December 22, 2017 2 Cover images represent changes to the checklist. Top left: Psilo- carphus elatior, Mystery Creek Road, August 2, 2017 (https: //www:inaturalist:org/observations/9139348). Image CC BY Matt Bowser. Top right: Mermis nigrescens at Headquarters Lake, October 11, 2017 (http://arctos:database:museum/media/10570362). Image CC0 Matt Bowser. Bottom left: Dichelotarsus laevicollis near Headquarters Lake, June 30, 2017 (http://arctos:database:museum/media/10572462). Image CC0 Matt Bowser. Bottom right: Drepanocladus longifolius at Headquarters Lake, April 10, 2015 (https://www:inaturalist:org/ photos/1708594). Image CC BY Matt Bowser. Contents Contents 3 Introduction 5 Purpose............................................................ 5 About the list......................................................... 5 Acknowledgments....................................................... 5 Native species 7 Vertebrates .......................................................... 7 Invertebrates ......................................................... 25 Vascular Plants........................................................ 52 Bryophytes .......................................................... 67 Other Plants ......................................................... 72 Chromista........................................................... 72 Fungi ............................................................. 72 Protozoa........................................................... -
Ultrastructure of Spermatogenesis and Mature Spermatozoa in The
Cell Biology International ISSN 1065-6995 doi: 10.1002/cbin.10562 RESEARCH ARTICLE Ultrastructure of spermatogenesis and mature spermatozoa in the flatworm Prosthiostomum siphunculus (Polycladida, Cotylea) Mehrez Gammoudi1, Willi Salvenmoser2, Abdel Halim Harrath3,Sa€ıda Tekaya1 and Bernhard Egger2* 1 Universite de Tunis El-Manar, Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, UR11ES12 Biologie de la Reproduction et du Developpement Animal, Tunis 2092, Tunisie 2 Research Unit Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria 3 Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Abstract This is the first study investigating spermatogenesis and spermatozoan ultrastructure in the polyclad flatworm Prosthiostomum siphunculus. The testes are numerous and scattered as follicles ventrally between the digestive ramifications. Each follicle contains the different stages of sperm differentiation. Spermatocytes and spermatids derive from a spermatogonium and the spermatids remain connected by intercellular bridges. Chromatoid bodies are present in the cytoplasm of spermatogonia up to spermatids. During early spermiogenesis, a differentiation zone appears in the distal part of spermatids. A ring of microtubules extends along the entire sperm shaft just beneath the cell membrane. An intercentriolar body is present and gives rise to two axonemes, each with a 9 þ “1” micro-tubular pattern. Development of the spermatid leads to cell elongation and formation of a filiform, mature spermatozoon with two free flagella and with cortical microtubules along the sperm shaft. The flagella exit the sperm shaft at different levels, a finding common for acotyleans, but so far unique for cotylean polyclads. The Golgi complex produces numerous electron-dense bodies of two types and of different sizes. -
Spermiogenesis and Spermatozoon Ultrastructure in Basal
Parasite 25, 7 (2018) © J.-L. Justine and L.G. Poddubnaya, published by EDP Sciences, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018007 Available online at: www.parasite-journal.org RESEARCH ARTICLE Spermiogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure in basal polyopisthocotylean monogeneans, Hexabothriidae and Chimaericolidae, and their significance for the phylogeny of the Monogenea Jean-Lou Justine1,* and Larisa G. Poddubnaya2 1 Institut Systématique Évolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 51, 75005 Paris, France 2 I. D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, 152742 Borok, Yaroslavl, Russia Received 27 November 2017, Accepted 24 January 2018, Published online 13 February 2018 Abstract- - Sperm ultrastructure provides morphological characters useful for understanding phylogeny; no study was available for two basal branches of the Polyopisthocotylea, the Chimaericolidea and Diclybothriidea. We describe here spermiogenesis and sperm in Chimaericola leptogaster (Chimaericolidae) and Rajonchocotyle emarginata (Hexabothriidae), and sperm in Callorhynchocotyle callorhynchi (Hexabothriidae). Spermiogenesis in C. leptogaster and R. emarginata shows the usual pattern of most Polyopisthocotylea with typical zones of differentiation and proximo-distal fusion of the flagella. In all three species, the structure of the spermatozoon is biflagellate, with two incorporated trepaxonematan 9 + “1” axonemes and a posterior nucleus. However, unexpected structures were also seen. An alleged synapomorphy of the Polyopisthocotylea is the presence of a continuous row of longitudinal microtubules in the nuclear region. The sperm of C. leptogaster has a posterior part with a single axoneme, and the part with the nucleus is devoid of the continuous row of microtubules. The spermatozoon of R.