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Redescription of Trypanosoma siniperca Chang 1964 from freshwater fish of China based on morphological and molecular
Zemao Gu1, Jianguo Wang, Ming Li
1Laboratory of Healthy Aquaculture, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China.
Abstract:
During the parasite fauna investigation within 2005, the freshwater fish trypanosome Trypanosoma siniperca Chang 1964 was isolated from the blood of Mandarin carp (Siniperca chuatsi) from Niushan Lake, Hubei Province, central China. Blood trypomastigotes were observed only, and the density of infection was low. Light microscopy examinations of this material made it possible to study in detail the morphology of this parasite and redescribe it according to current standards. T. siniperca is characterized also on the molecular level using the sequences of SSU rRNA gene. Phylogenetic analyses based on these sequences allowed clearer phylogenetic relationships to be established with other fish trypanosomes sequenced to date.

