The IVth Conference of the
Scandinavian-Baltic Society for Parasitology
“Parasites and infectious diseases in a changing world”
University of Oslo June 19th – 22nd 2011
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Emerging Parasitic Diseases
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Museomics and Parasitology
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Arctic Parasitology
Gyrodactylus - Lessons from molecules
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Use of ITS rDNA for discrimination of European greenand brown-banded sporocysts within the genus
Leucochloridium Carus, 1835 (Digenea: Leucochloriidae)
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Casey, S.P., 2Bakke, T.A., 2Harris, P.D. & 1Cable, J.
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School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3TL, UK; 2Natural History
Museum, University of Oslo, NO-0562 Oslo, Norway
Transmission of Leucochloridium species to their definitive avian hosts may be facilitated
by the rhythmic movement of coloured sporocyst broodsacs in the ocular tentacles of
infected snails. These broodsacs resemble caterpillars and by enticement increase the
probability of predation by birds. Broodsac banding pattern and colour (green, yellow to
red/brown) have traditionally formed part of the taxonomic criteria for the genus. In this
study, sequence divergence of the 5.8S rDNA gene and associated internal transcribed
spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) in two of the most frequently observed Leucochloridium taxa
from Europe is related to broodsac type based on colour and banding pattern. The present
green-banded broodsac (L. paradoxum Carus, 1835) and brown-banded broodsac forms
(L. variae McIntosh, 1932) differ in ITS sequence by 6.8%, confirming their distinctness.
No intraspecific differences were noted within each colour morph in specimens collected
from Poland, Denmark or Norway, indicating that a single taxon of each type occurs in
Europe. The significance of these findings to our understanding of metapopulation
dynamics and evolutionary ecology of Leucochloridium is discussed.