title: New data on Soricimyxum fegati (Myxozoa) including analysis of its phylogenetic position inferred from the SSU rRNA gene sequence.
abstract: A myxosporean species found to develop in the liver of 10 out of 24 common shrews, Sorex araneus L., caught in South Bohemia, Czech Republic, was identified as Soricimyxum fegati Prunescu, Prunescu, Pucek et Lom, 2007, the unique representative of the genus and the first myxosporean species known to develop from plasmodia to spores in a terrestrial mammal. The original description of this species, based on fixed material, is supplemented with new data based on fresh material and with partial sequence of SSU rDNA (GenBank Acc. No. EU232760). Phylogenetic analysis of SSU rDNA revealed that S. fegati is closely related to myxosporeans infecting gall bladders of freshwater fish.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovská 31, 370 05 Ceské, Budĕjovice, Czech Republic. iva@paru.cas.cz
authors.forename: Iva
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dyková
authors.forename: Tomás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tyml
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fiala
authors.forename: Jirí
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lom
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D018153:Czech Republic; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics*; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008099:Liver / Q000469:parasitology*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012788:Shrews / Q000469:parasitology*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D012335:RNA, Ribosomal