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Experimental infections, using a fluorescent marker, of two elasmobranch species by unciliated larvae of Branchotenthes octohamatus (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae): invasion route, host specificity and post-larval development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2007

V. GLENNON ,
L. A. CHISHOLM  and
I. D. WHITTINGTON
V. GLENNON*
Affiliation:
Marine Parasitology Laboratory, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, South Australia 5005, Australia
L. A. CHISHOLM
Affiliation:
Marine Parasitology Laboratory, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, South Australia 5005, Australia
I. D. WHITTINGTON
Affiliation:
Marine Parasitology Laboratory, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, South Australia 5005, Australia Monogenean Research Laboratory, Parasitology Section, The South Australian Museum, North Terrace, South Australia 5000, Australia
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*Corresponding author: Marine Parasitology Laboratory, Darling Building (DP418), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, South Australia 5005, Australia. Tel: +61 8 8303 3990. Fax: +61 8 8303 4364. E-mail: vanessa.glennon@adelaide.edu.au
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Summary

The infection biology of Branchotenthes octohamatus (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae) from the gills of the southern fiddler ray, Trygonorrhina fasciata (Rhinobatidae), was studied using the fluorescent dye, 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein diacetate N-succinimidyl ester (CFSE). This is the first use of this technique on a monogenean species with unciliated larvae and the first for any monogenean larva infecting an elasmobranch host. CFSE-labelled post-larvae were recovered from gills of T. fasciata within 30 min of exposure to the host, providing strong evidence that larvae invade host gills directly and do not migrate after initial attachment elsewhere. The rapidity with which larvae settled suggests that the mode of infection may deliver larvae directly to the gills via the host's inhalant respiratory current. The specificity of B. octohamatus was investigated by exposing a sympatric rhinobatid host species, the western shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema vincentiana, to B. octohamatus larvae newly emerged from eggs laid by adult parasites from gills of T. fasciata. Experimental exposure of A. vincentiana to freshly hatched B. octohamatus larvae resulted in a persistent infection, indicating that B. octohamatus may not be strictly host specific. Post-larval development charted on these experimentally infected A. vincentiana specimens was slow. Parasites appeared to be sexually mature at 91 days at 21–25°C. Branchotenthes octohamatus larvae bear only 4 pairs of hooklets on the haptor whereas all other hexabothriid larvae described so far have 5 hooklet pairs. Ontogenetic changes to the haptor revealed that it is probably hooklet pair III that is lost from B. octohamatus prior to larval development.

Keywords

infectionlarvaedevelopmentCFSEBranchotenthes octohamatusHexabothriidaeMonogeneaRhinobatidaespecificity
Type
Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 134 , Issue 9 , August 2007 , pp. 1243 - 1252
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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