Haemoproteus ilanpapernai n. sp. (Apicomplexa, Haemoproteidae) in Strix seloputo from Singapore: morphological description and reassignment of molecular data.
Haemoproteus ilanpapernai Karadjian and Landau n. sp. from the Spotted Wood Owl, Strix seloputo, in Singapore is described from material from Ilan Paperna's collection of slides. The species was previously identified as Haemoproteus syrnii (Mayer, 1910). However, comparisons between the material from Strix seloputo and our own material from Strix aluco, the type host of H. syrnii, revealed morphological and molecular differences. H. ilanpapernai n. sp. differs morphologically from H. syrnii by the much smaller size of the gametocytes, the different position of the mature gametocytes in the erythrocyte (apical, subapical, or lateral in H. ilanpapernai vs. always lateral in H. syrnii), the effect on the erythrocyte nucleus (frequently tilted in H. ilanpapernai but not displaced laterally vs. straight and displaced laterally in H. syrnii) and characters of the pigment (aggregated in the gametocytes of H. ilanpapernai vs. dispersed in H. syrnii). A molecular analysis showed that the two species differ by 2.9% at the cyt b and 3.1% at the COI genes.
UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, CP 52, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Grégory
G
Karadjian
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, National Zoological Park, PO Box 37012 MRC 5503, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA.
Ellen
E
Martinsen
UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, CP 52, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Linda
L
Duval
Malaria Reference Centre - National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health, 9 Hospital Drive, Block C, #04-01, Sing Health Research Facilities, Singapore 169612.
Jean-Marc
JM
Chavatte
UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, CP 52, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Irène
I
Landau
D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*; D045303:Cytochromes b / Q000235:genetics; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000469:parasitology; D016787:Haemosporida / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018512:Parasitemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D011529:Protozoan Infections, Animal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012846:Singapore / Q000453:epidemiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D020305:Strigiformes / Q000469:parasitology*
D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D015800:Protozoan Proteins; D045303:Cytochromes b; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV