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Long-Term Prophylactic Antibiotic Treatment: Effects on Survival, Immunocompetence and Reproduction Success of Parasemia plantaginis (Lepidoptera: Er…
2016
Hundreds of insect species are nowadays reared under laboratory conditions. Rearing of insects always implicates the risk of diseases, among which microbial infections are the most frequent and difficult problems. Although there are effective prophylactic treatments, the side effects of applied antibiotics are not well understood. We examined the effect of prophylactic antibiotic treatment on the overwintering success of wood tiger moth (Parasemia plantaginis) larvae, and the postdiapause effect on their life-history traits. Four weeks before hibernation larvae were treated with a widely used antibiotic (fumagillin). We monitored moths' survival and life-history traits during the following …
Cucumispora dikerogammari n. gen. (Fungi: Microsporidia) infecting the invasive amphipod Dikerogammarus villosus: a potential emerging disease in Eur…
2010
SUMMARYDikerogammarus villosusis an invasive amphipod that recently colonized the main rivers of Central and Western Europe. Two frequent microsporidian parasites were previously detected in this species, but their taxonomic status was unclear. Here we present ultrastructural and molecular data indicating that these two parasites are in fact a single microsporidian species. This parasite shares numerous characteristics ofNosemaspp. It forms elongate spores (cucumiform), developing in direct contact with host cell cytoplasm; all developmental stages are diplokaryotic and the life cycle is monomorphic with disporoblastic sporogony. Initially this parasite was described asNosema dikerogammariO…
Specific Detection and Localization of Microsporidian Parasites in Invertebrate Hosts by Using In Situ Hybridization
2013
ABSTRACT We designed fluorescence in situ hybridization probes for two distinct microsporidian clades and demonstrated their application in detecting, respectively, Nosema / Vairimorpha and Dictyoceola species. We used them to study the vertical transmission of two microsporidia infecting the amphipod Gammarus duebeni .
Infection by a vertically-transmitted microsporidian parasite is associated with a female-biased sex ratio and survival advantage in the amphipod Gam…
2007
SUMMARYVertically transmitted parasites may have positive, neutral or negative effects on host fitness, and are also predicted to exhibit sex-specific virulence to increase the proportion or fitness of the transmitting sex. We investigated these predictions in a study on the survival and sex ratio of offspring of the amphipod Gammarus roeseli from females infected by the vertically transmitted microsporidia Nosema granulosis. We found, to our knowledge, the first evidence for a positive relationship between N. granulosis infection and host survival. Infection was associated with sex ratio distortion, not by male-killing, but probably by parasite-induced feminization of putative G. roeseli m…
Rietumu medusbites (Apis mellifera L.) būtiskāko parazītisko mikrosporīdiju (Nosema spp.) un ērču (Varroa destructor) izplatību un sastopamību ietekm…
2019
Medusbišu, tāpat kā citu apputeksnētāju, skaita samazināšanās Eiropā un pasaulē kopumā saistāma t.sk. ar parazitārām slimībām. Šī pētījuma mērķis ir izpētīt Rietumu medusbišu (Apis mellifera L.) būtiskāko parazītu (Nosema spp., Varroa destructor) izplatību un sastopamību ietekmējošos faktorus Latvijā. Laikā no 2012.-2013. gadam ievākti bišu paraugi no 274 dravām, lai noteiktu to invāzijas slimību sastopamību Latvijas teritorijā. Pētījumā konstatēta Nosema spp. prevalence 49,5% un vidējā intensitāte 8,5x105 sporas uz vienu biti. Savukārt V. destructor prevalence bija 52,3% un vidējā intensitāte 3,0 ērces uz 100 bitēm. Būtiskākie parazītu sastopamību ietekmējošie faktori bitēs Latvijā bijā se…
Fitonimia e caratteri popolari in Sicilia, fra traslati e saperi popolari
2010
Il contributo si occupa del trasferimento di significato, nei dialetti siciliani, da termini appartenenti all’area semantica della fitonimia a quella dei caratteri umani, tentando di percorrere alcune piste possibili dei meccanismi etnosapienziali che abbiano motivato gli spostamenti semantici. Le fonti principali dei dati linguistici sono costituite da materiali lessicografici (dizionari e repertori onomastici) ed etnodialettali, raccolti sul campo in luoghi e per fini diversi Il mondo naturale, nella sua articolazione di flora e fauna, è, infatti, la prima fonte del sapere popolare: non stupisce, dunque, che questo sapere, che passa attraverso specifiche parole di un organico campo semant…