Geographical distribution and hosts of the cestode Paranoplocephala omphalodes (Hermann, 1783) Lühe, 1910 in Russia and adjacent territories

Pavel Vlasenko; Sergey Abramov; Sergey Bugmyrin; Tamara Dupal; Nataliya Fomenko; Anton Gromov; Eugeny Zakharov; Vadim Ilyashenko; Zharkyn Kabdolov; Artem Tikunov; Egor Vlasov; Anton Krivopalov

doi:10.1007/s00436-019-06462-z

Geographical distribution and hosts of the cestode Paranoplocephala omphalodes (Hermann, 1783) Lühe, 1910 in Russia and adjacent territories

Parasitol Res. 2019 Dec;118(12):3543-3548. doi: 10.1007/s00436-019-06462-z. Epub 2019 Nov 6.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
² Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia.
³ AO Vector-Best, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁴ A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia.
⁶ Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia.
⁷ Pavlodar State Pedagogical University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
⁸ Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁹ V.V. Alekhin Central-Chernozem State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Zapovednyi, Kursk Oblast, Russia.
¹⁰ Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. krivopalov@gmail.com.

PMID: 31691856
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-019-06462-z

Abstract

Paranoplocephala omphalodes is a widespread parasite of voles. Low morphological variability within the genus Paranoplocephala has led to erroneous identification of P. omphalodes a wide range of definitive hosts. The use of molecular methods in the earlier investigations has confirmed that P. omphalodes parasitizes four vole species in Europe. We studied the distribution of P. omphalodes in Russia and Kazakhstan using molecular tools. The study of 3248 individuals of 20 arvicoline species confirmed a wide distribution of P. omphalodes. Cestodes of this species were found in Microtus arvalis, M. levis, M. agrestis, Arvicola amphibius, and also in Chionomys gud. Analysis of the mitochondrial gene cox1 variability revealed a low haplotype diversity in P. omphalodes in Eurasia.

Keywords: Cestodes; Eurasia; Haplotype; Paranoplocephala omphalodes; Voles; cox1.

MeSH terms

Animals
Arvicolinae / classification
Arvicolinae / parasitology*
Cestoda / classification
Cestoda / genetics
Cestoda / isolation & purification*
Cestoda / physiology
Cestode Infections / parasitology
Cestode Infections / veterinary*
Genes, Mitochondrial
Host Specificity
Kazakhstan
Phylogeny
Rodent Diseases / parasitology*
Russia