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- As part of a biodiversity study in northwestern Hungary, we conducted a parasitological survey of small mammals. In both common shrews (Sorex araneus Linnaeus) and pygmy shrews (Sorex minutus Linnaeus), we found myxospores of a species of Soricimyxum Prunescu, Prunescu, Pucek et Lom, 2007 (Myxosporea) and plasmodia in the bile ducts within the liver. Spores from both species of shrewswere morphologically and morphometrically indistinguishable, but differed in their SSU rRNA gene sequences by 3.3%. We identified spores and developmental stages from the common shrew as Soricimyxum fegati Prunescu, Prunescu, Pucek et Lom, 2007, based on morphometric data and DNA sequence similarity. Spores from the pygmy shrew were only 96.7% similar to S. fegati, hence we identified them as a novel myxosporean Soricimyxum minuti sp. n. This is only the second myxosporean parasite species described from mammals.
- Keywords: mammalian hosts,
Soricimyxum spp.,
liver,
bile ducts,
Sorex spp.,
Hungary,
Myxozoa
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- Székely, C., Cech, G., Atkinson, S. D., Molnár, K., Egyed, L., & Gubányi, A. (2015). A novel myxozoan parasite of terrestrial mammals: description of Soricimyxum minuti sp. n.(Myxosporea) in pygmy shrew Sorex minutus from Hungary. Folia Parasitologica, 62, 045. doi:doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.045
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- The research was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) projects K100132, KTIA-AIK-12-1-2013-0017 and by the National Biodiversity Monitoring System.
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