TY - JOUR ID - 3076 TI - The phylogenetic position of Myxobolus carnaticus (Myxozoa, Myxosporea, Bivalvulida) infecting gill lamellae of Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822) based on 18S rRNA sequence analysis JO - Molecular Biology Research Communications JA - MBRC LA - en SN - 2322-181X AU - Banerjee, Sayani AU - Patra, Avjit AU - Adikasavalu, Harresh AU - Mondal, Anjan AU - Abraham, Thangapalam AD - Department of Aquatic Animal Health, Faculty of Fishery Sciences, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Chakgaria, Kolkata, India AD - 298/1 BG patuli Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 125 EP - 132 KW - Cirrhinus mrigala KW - Myxobolus carnaticus KW - gill myxoboliasis KW - Molecular phylogeny DO - 10.22099/mbrc.2015.3076 N2 - Myxozoans are an economically important group of microscopic parasites best known for the diseases they cause in commercially important fish hosts. The classification of myxosporeans is generally based on the morphology of their myxospores. Without molecular data, it is very difficult to identify new or existing species. DNA sequence information is therefore, a prerequisite to taxonomic and phylogenic studies of myxosporeans. In the present study, a myxozoan parasite, Myxobolus carnaticus,infecting the gill lamellae of mrigal carp, Cirrhinus mrigala,was characterized by the 18S rRNA gene sequence. The DNA sequence of M. carnaticus clustered phylogenetically with other gill infecting Myxobolus spp. of freshwater clades, forming a dichotomy with closely related M. pavlovskii (HM991164) that infects the gill lamellae epithelium of silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix with 95% similarity. Evolutionary pair-wise distances among M. carnaticus and other species of myxosporeans indicated high genetic diversity among myxosporeans. The present study demonstrated that tissue tropism, host specificity and habitat play important roles in phylogenetic relationships among myxozoan species. UR - https://mbrc.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3076.html L1 - https://mbrc.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3076_d2169627a3ce7b8215376454782620a4.pdf ER -