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1 April 2004 HERPETOMONAS ZTIPLIKA N. SP. (KINETOPLASTIDA: TRYPANOSOMATIDAE): A PARASITE OF THE BLOOD-SUCKING BITING MIDGE CULICOIDES KIBUNENSIS TOKUNAGA, 1937 (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE)
Sergei Podlipaev, Jan Votýpka, Milan Jirků, Milena Svobodová, Julius Lukeš
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Abstract

Herein, we describe the first case of a natural infection of biting midges by a kinetoplastid protozoan. Flagellates from a female Culicoides kibunensis captured in a bird's nest were introduced into culture and characterized by light and electron microscopy. However, because the morphological data were inconclusive, the novel endosymbiont-free trypanosomatid was assigned into Herpetomonas primarily on the basis of the 18S and 5S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences.

Sergei Podlipaev, Jan Votýpka, Milan Jirků, Milena Svobodová, and Julius Lukeš "HERPETOMONAS ZTIPLIKA N. SP. (KINETOPLASTIDA: TRYPANOSOMATIDAE): A PARASITE OF THE BLOOD-SUCKING BITING MIDGE CULICOIDES KIBUNENSIS TOKUNAGA, 1937 (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE)," Journal of Parasitology 90(2), 342-347, (1 April 2004). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-156R
Received: 27 May 2003; Accepted: 1 August 2003; Published: 1 April 2004
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