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Morphological characteristics and phylogenetic trends of trematode cercariae in freshwater snails from Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand

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2017

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234001

DOI

10.3347/kjp.2017.55.1.47

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2-s2.0-85016092373

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Korean Journal of Parasitology. Vol 55, No.1 (2017), p.47-54

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Chontananarth T., Tejangkura T., Wetchasart N., Chimburut C. Morphological characteristics and phylogenetic trends of trematode cercariae in freshwater snails from Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand. Korean Journal of Parasitology. Vol 55, No.1 (2017), p.47-54. doi:10.3347/kjp.2017.55.1.47 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/4255

Title

Morphological characteristics and phylogenetic trends of trematode cercariae in freshwater snails from Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand

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Chontananarth T.
 Tejangkura T.
 Wetchasart N.
 Chimburut C.

Abstract

The prevalence of cercarial infection in freshwater snails and their evolutionary trends were studied in Nakhon Nayok province, Thailand. A total of 2,869 individual snails were examined for parasitic infections. The results showed that 12 snail species were found to host larval stages of trematodes with an overall prevalence of 4.7%. The infected specimens included 7 types at the cercarial stage; cercariae, megalurous cercariae, echinostome cercariae, furcocercous cercariae, parapleurolophocercous cercariae, virgulate cercariae, and xiphidiocercariae. Regarding molecular identification, ITS2 sequence data of each larval trematode were analyzed, and a dendrogram was constructed using the neighbor-joining method with 10,000 replicates. The dendrogram was separated into 6 clades (order/family), including Echinos-tomatida/Echinostomatidae, Echinostomatida/Philophthalmidae, Opisthorchiida/Heterophyidae, Plagiorchiida/Prostho-gonimidae, Plagiorchiida/Lecithodendriidae, and Strigeatida/Cyathocotylidae. These findings were used to confirm morphological characteristics and evolutionary trends of each type of cercariae discovered in Nakhon Nayok province. Furthermore, this investigation confirmed that the ITS2 data of cercariae could be used to study on phylogenetic relationships or to determine classification of this species at order and/or family level when possible. © 2017, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine.

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Internal transcribed spacer 2
 Fresh water
 Helminth DNA
 Ribosomal spacer DNA
 Article
 Cercaria
 Controlled study
 Echinostomatidae
 Heterophyidae
 Nonhuman
 Opisthorchiidae
 Parasite prevalence
 Phylogenetic tree
 Phylogeny
 Snail
 Thailand
 Trematodiasis
 Anatomy and histology
 Animal
 Chemistry
 Classification
 Cluster analysis
 DNA sequence
 Genetics
 Isolation and purification
 Microscopy
 Parasitology
 Phylogeny
 Prevalence
 Trematode
 Animals
 Cluster Analysis
 DNA, Helminth
 DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
 Fresh Water
 Microscopy
 Phylogeny
 Prevalence
 Sequence Analysis, DNA
 Snails
 Thailand
 Trematoda

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