Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-xxrs7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-27T00:05:28.869Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Patterns of relatedness in the Kudoidae with descriptions of Kudoa chaetodoni n. sp. and K. lethrini n. sp. (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2007

M. A. A. BURGER
Affiliation:
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
T. H. CRIBB
Affiliation:
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
R. D. ADLARD*
Affiliation:
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia Biodiversity Program, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
*
*Corresponding author: Biodiversity Program, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia. Tel: +61 7 3840 7723. Fax: +61 7 3846 1226. E-mail: robert.adlard@qm.qld.gov.au

Summary

Two morphologically novel Kudoa species are characterized from brain tissue of fish, Kudoa chaetodoni n. sp. from Chaetodon unimaculatus (Chaetodontidae) and Kudoa lethrini n. sp. from Gymnocranius audleyi and Lethrinus harak (Lethrinidae). Additionally we characterized a 5-spore valve (SV) Kudoa species from the brain of Sillago ciliata (Sillaginidae). Intriguingly, its 18S rDNA sequence was identical to that of the 7 SV Kudoa yasunagai extracted from the brain of a paralichthyid halibut in Japan. These 2 species may either prove to be con-specific, even though morphology and distribution differ, or demonstrate the limit of specific resolution in the small subunit rDNA gene region. Small subunit rDNA sequences from these new species were used in molecular phylogenetic analyses of kudoids to examine congruence of phylogeny with tissue tropism, geographical distribution, and host specificity. There was significant correlation between tissue tropism in the form of well-supported brain and heart-infecting clades. Host specificity and geographical distribution showed some correlations with genotype.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Abollo, E., Novoa, B. and Figueras, A. (2005). SSU rDNA analysis of Kudoa rosenbuschi (Myxosporea) from the Argentinean hake Merluccius hubbsi. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 64, 135139.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Akaishi, F., Easy, R., St-Jean, S., Courtenay, S., de Oliveira Ribeira, L. A. and Cone, D. (2004). Supplemental diagnosis of Kudoa funduli (Myxozoa) parasitizing Fundulus heteroclitus (Cyprinodontidae) from coastal northeastern North America. Journal of Parasitology 90, 477480. doi: 10.1645/GE-3281RN.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Blaylock, R. B., Bullard, S. A. and Whipps, C. M. (2004). Kudoa hypoepicardialis n. sp (Myxozoa:Kudoidae) and associated lesions from the heart of seven perciform fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 90, 584593. doi: 10.1645/GE-161R.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cheung, P. J., Nigrelli, R. F. and Ruggieri, G. D. (1983). Pentacapsula muscularis sp. nov. (Myxosporea, Pentacapsulidae) – a histozoic parasite of butterflyfish, Chaetodon collare Bloch. Journal of Fish Diseases 6, 393395. doi: 10/1111/j.1365-2761.1983.tb00093.x.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Diamant, A., Ucko, M., Paperna, I., Colorni, A. and Lipshitz, A. (2005). Kudoa iwatai (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) in wild and cultured fish in the Red Sea: redescription and molecular phylogeny. Journal of Parasitology 91, 11751189. doi: 10.1645/GE-491R.1.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
El-Matbouli, M., Hoffmann, R. W., Schoel, H., McDowell, T. S. and Hedrick, R. P. (1999). Whirling disease: host specificity and interaction between the actinosporean stage of Myxobolus cerebralis and rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 35, 112.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Grossel, G. W., Dykova, I., Handlinger, J. and Munday, B. L. (2003). Pentacapsula neurophila sp. n. (Multivalvulida) from the central nervous system of striped trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster). Journal of Fish Diseases 26, 315320. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2761.2003.00459.x.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gunter, N. L., Whipps, C. M., Cribb, T. H. and Adlard, R. D. (2006). Characterisation of Kudoa monodactyli n. sp. (Myxozoa: Multivalvulida) from Monodactylus argenteus (Teleostei: Monodactylidae) from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 53, 374378. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2006.00115.x.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hall, T. A. (1999). BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series 41, 9598.Google Scholar
Hervio, D. M. L., Kent, M. L., Khattra, J., Sakanari, J., Yokoyama, H. and Devlin, R. H. (1997). Taxonomy of Kudoa species (Myxosporea), using a small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequence. Canadian Journal of Zoology 75, 21122119.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heulsenbeck, J. P. and Ronquist, F. (2001). Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Biometrics 17, 754755.Google Scholar
Hillis, D. M. and Dixon, M. T. (1991). Ribosomal DNA – molecular evolution and phylogenetic inference. Quarterly Review of Biology 66, 410453.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hsieh, S. and Chen, C. (1984). Septemcapsula yasunagai gen. et sp. nov., representative of a new family of the class Myxosporea. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 9, 225227.Google Scholar
Kent, M. L., Andree, K. B., Bartholomew, J. L., El-Matbouli, M., et al. (2001). Recent advances in our knowledge of the Myxozoa. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 48, 395413.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kovaljova, A. A. and Gajevskaja, A. V. (1984). New species of the genera Kudoa and Pentacapsula (Myxosporidia, Multivalvulida) with unusual location. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 63, 10901092.Google Scholar
Lom, J. and Arthur, J. R. (1989). A guideline for the preparation of species descriptions in Myxosporea. Journal of Fish Diseases 12, 151156. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2761.1989.tb00287.x.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lom, J., Rohde, K. and Dykova, I. (1992). Studies on protozoan parasites of Australian fishes.1. New species of the genera Coccomyxa Leger Et Hesse, 1907, Ortholinea Shulman, 1962 and Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 (Myxozoa, Myxosporea). Folia Parasitologica 39, 289306.Google Scholar
Naidjenova, N. N. and Zaika, V. E. (1970). Three new genera of Myxosporidia – fish parasites from the Indian Ocean. Zoologicheskyi Zhurnal 49, 451454.Google Scholar
Parker, J. D. and Warner, M. C. (1970). Effects of fixation, dehydration and staining on dimensions of myxosporidian and microsporidian spores. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 6, 448456.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Posada, D. and Crandall, K. A. (1998). Modeltest: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14, 817818.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rozen, S. and Skalersky, H. J. (2000). Primer3. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge.Google ScholarPubMed
Swofford, D. L. (2002). PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis using Parsimony (*and other Methods), 4 Edn. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, USA.Google Scholar
Thompson, J. D., Higgins, D. G. and Gibson, T. J. (1994). Clustal-W – Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Research 22, 46734680.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Voelker, F. A. (1978). Microscopic and ultrastructural characteristics of Kudoa infection in a butterfly fish (Chaetodon). Veterinary Pathology 15, 4048.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wang, P. C., Huang, J. P., Tsai, M. A., Cheng, S. Y., Tsai, M. A., Chen, S. D., Chen, S. P., Chiu, S. H., Liaw, L. L., Chang, L. T. and Chen, S. C. (2005). Systemic infection of Kudoa lutjanus n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) in red snapper Lutjanus erythropterus from Taiwan. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 67, 115124.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Webb, S. R., Garman, G. C., McIninch, S. P., Nerad, T. A., Peglar, M. T., Gillevet, P. M. and Brown, B. L. (2005). Etiology of ulcerative lesions of Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) from James River, Virginia. Parasitology Research 97, 358366. doi: 10.1007/s00436-005-1437-0.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whipps, C. M., Adlard, R. D., Bryant, M. S. and Kent, M. L. (2003 a). Two unusual myxozoans, Kudoa quadricornis n. sp. (Multivalvulida) from the muscle of goldspotted trevally (Carangoides fulvoguttatus) and Kudoa permulticapsula n. sp. (Multivalvulida) from the muscle of spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Parasitology 89, 168173. doi: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0168:TUMKQN]2.0.CO;2.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whipps, C. M., Adlard, R. D., Bryant, M. S., Lester, R. J. G., Findlay, V. and Kent, M. L. (2003 b). First report of three Kudoa species from Eastern Australia: Kudoa thyrsites from Mahi mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Kudoa amamiensis and Kudoa minithyrsites n. sp from Sweeper (Pempheris ypsilychnus). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 50, 215219.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whipps, C. M. and Diggles, B. K. (2006). Kudoa alliaria in flesh of Argentinian Hoki Macruronus magellanicus (Gadiformes: Merlucciidae). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 69, 259263.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whipps, C. M., Grossel, G., Adlard, R. D., Yokoyama, H., Bryant, M. S., Munday, B. L. and Kent, M. L. (2004). Phylogeny of the Multivalvulida (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) based on comparative ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Journal of Parasitology 90, 618622. doi: 10.1645/GE-153R.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whipps, C. M. and Kent, M. L. (2006). Phylogeography of the cosmopolitan marine parasite Kudoa thyrsites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 53, 364733. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2006.00114.x.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whitaker, D. J., Kent, M. L. and Sakanari, J. A. (1996). Kudoa miniauriculata n. sp. (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) from the musculature of bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) from California. Journal of Parasitology 82, 312315.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yokoyama, H. and Itoh, N. (2005). Two multivalvulid myxozoans causing postmortem myoliquefaction: Kudoa megacapsula n. sp. from red barracuda (Sphyraena pinguis) and Kudoa thyrsites from splendid alfonso (Beryx splendens). Journal of Parasitology 91, 11321137.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yokoyama, H., Whipps, C. M., Kent, M. L., Mizuno, K. and Kawakami, H. (2004). Kudoa thyrsites from Japanese flounder and Kudoa lateolabracis n. sp. from Chinese sea bass: causative myxozoans of post-mortem myoliquefaction. Fish Pathology 39, 7985.CrossRefGoogle Scholar