title: Redescription of Cercopithifilaria rugosicauda (Böhm & Supperer, 1953) (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) of roe deer, with an emended diagnosis of the genus Cercopithifilaria and a genetic characterisation.
abstract: Newly collected material of Cercopithifilaria rugosicauda from roe deer Capreolus capreolus was analysed and compared to descriptions of C. rugosicauda from Austria and Hungary. The present specimens were assigned to the genus Cercopithifilaria using both morphological and molecular analyses. Complementary morphological data on the males and microfilariae of C. rugosicauda were described. The main morphological characters of different species of Cercopithifilaria were outlined and an emended generic diagnosis proposed. A genetic characterisation based on the analyses of cox1 and 12S rDNA sequences was reported supporting that C. rugosicauda was included in the clade of the genus Cercopithifilaria distinctly from other congeneric species available. However, these molecular analyses did not solve the relationships between the species of Cercopithifilaria. These could be approached using morphological characters that might be representative of their evolutionary history. In addition, Wolbachia was not seen in C. rugosicauda, either by immunohistological or by molecular approaches.
authors.affiliation: UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, CP52, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lefoulon
authors.affiliation: Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuzmin
authors.affiliation: UMR 1300 Biology, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health (BioEpAR), INRA, Nantes, France; LUNAM Université, Oniris, Nantes, France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Plantard
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Yasen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mutafchiev
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Public Health, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Italy.
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Otranto
authors.affiliation: UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, CP52, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. Electronic address: cmartin@mnhn.fr.
authors.forename: Coralie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, CP52, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: Odile
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bain
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D018509:DNA, Helminth / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003670:Deer / Q000469:parasitology*; D005368:Filariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D005370:Filarioidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008842:Microfilariae; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D020577:Wolbachia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D018509:DNA, Helminth; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal
keywords: Cercopithifilaria rugosicauda; Diagnosis; Onchocercidae; Wolbachia