title: The marine herring myxozoan Ceratomyxa auerbachi (Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae) uses Chone infundibuliformis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellidae) as invertebrate host.
abstract: Sequencing of SSU rDNA showed that actinospores of the tetractinomyxon type, which develop in Chone infundibuliformis Krøyer (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae) from the northern Øresund, Denmark, are identical with Ceratomyxa auerbachi Kabata, 1962 (Myxozoa, Ceratomyxidae). This myxosporean was found in the gallbladder of the Atlantic herring Clupea harengus L. from the northern Øresund, Denmark, and from the Bergen area, western Norway. The pansporocysts and actinospores of C. auerbachi are described. This is the third elucidated two-host life cycle of a marine myxozoan, and the first involving a marine ceratomyxid.
authors.affiliation: Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, DK-3000 Helsingør, Denmark.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Køie
authors.forename: Egil
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Karlsbakk
authors.forename: Are
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nylund
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003718:Denmark; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000166:cytology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology*; D005399:Fishes / Q000469:parasitology; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000469:parasitology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009664:Norway; D010802:Phylogeny; D011077:Polychaeta / Q000469:parasitology*; D012337:RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D033761:Spores, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012337:RNA, Ribosomal, 18S