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Unique genetic structure of the human tapeworm Dibothriocephalus latus from the Alpine lakes region – a successful adaptation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2022

Alžbeta Radačovská Open the ORCID record for Alžbeta Radačovská [Opens in a new window] ,
Eva Čisovská Bazsalovicsová Open the ORCID record for Eva Čisovská Bazsalovicsová [Opens in a new window] ,
Katarína Šoltys Open the ORCID record for Katarína Šoltys [Opens in a new window] ,
Jan Štefka Open the ORCID record for Jan Štefka [Opens in a new window] ,
Gabriel Minárik ,
Andrea Gustinelli ,
Julia K. Chugunova Open the ORCID record for Julia K. Chugunova [Opens in a new window]  and
Ivica Králová-Hromadová Open the ORCID record for Ivica Králová-Hromadová [Opens in a new window]
Alžbeta Radačovská
Affiliation:
Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
Eva Čisovská Bazsalovicsová
Affiliation:
Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
Katarína Šoltys
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
Jan Štefka
Affiliation:
Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Parasitology, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Gabriel Minárik
Affiliation:
Medirex, a.s., Galvaniho 17/C, P.O. Box 143, 82016 Bratislava, Slovakia
Andrea Gustinelli
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra 50, 40064 Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy
Julia K. Chugunova
Affiliation:
Krasnoyarsk Branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography ‘VNIRO’, Parizhskoi Kommuny, 33, 660097 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Ivica Králová-Hromadová*
Affiliation:
Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
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Author for correspondence: Ivica Králová-Hromadová, E-mail: hromadova@saske.sk
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Abstract

Dibothriocephalus latus is the most frequent causative agent of fish-borne zoonosis (diphyllobothriosis) in Europe, where it is currently circulating mainly in the Alpine lakes region (ALR) and Russia. Three mitochondrial genes (cox1, cob and nad3) and 6 microsatellite loci were analysed to determine how is the recently detected triploidy/parthenogenesis in tapeworms from ALR displayed at the DNA level. A geographically distant population from the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir in Russia (RU-KR) was analysed as a comparative population. One or 2 alleles of each microsatellite locus was detected in plerocercoids from RU-KR, corresponding to the microsatellite pattern of a diploid organism. In contrast, 1–3 alleles were observed in tapeworms from ALR, in accordance with their triploidy. The high diversity of mitochondrial haplotypes in D. latus from RU-KR implied an original and relatively stable population, but the identical structure of mitochondrial genes of tapeworms from ALR was probably a consequence of a bottleneck typical of introduced populations. These results indicated that the diploid/sexually reproducing population from RU-KR was ancestral, located within the centre of the distribution of the species, and the triploid/parthenogenetically reproducing subalpine population was at the margin of the distribution. The current study revealed the allelic structure of the microsatellite loci in the triploid tapeworm for the first time.

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Asexual populationDiphyllobothriosisfish-borne zoonosishaplotypesmicrosatellitesmitochondrial DNAparthenogenesistriploid tapeworms
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Parasitology , Volume 149 , Issue 8 , July 2022 , pp. 1106 - 1118
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