Diplostomum pseudospathaceum explained

Diplostomum pseudospathaceum is a species of trematode in the family Diplostomidae.

Life cycle

It is a type of fluke infecting the eyes of some species of fish, altering their movement patterns to suit its needs at different stages of development.[1] The parasite infects snails and birds, sexually reproducing in the latter (its primary host) and asexually in the former (its first intermediate host), as well as many species of fish (its second intermediate host).[2] When infecting a fish, it quickly moves into the fish's eye lenses, as they lack blood circulation, so the parasite is protected there from the host's immune system. This latter trait is probably responsible for the parasite's broad range of fish host species.[3] Having infected the fish, the course of infection can be modulated by co-infection with Flavobacterium columnare.[4]

Hosts

Intermediate hosts of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum include:

It is known to infect Larus ridibundus, the black-headed gull, as a definitive host.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour. New Scientist. 2017-05-04.
  2. Diplostomiasis: The disease and host-parasite interactions In Pike . Parasitic Diseases of Fish . 1994 . Chappell . L. H. . Hardie . L. J. . Secombes . C. J. . 59–86 .
  3. 10.1016/j.zool.2016.05.008. 1873-2720. 119. 4. 375–383. Scharsack. Jörn P.. Franke. Frederik. Erin. Noémi I.. Kuske. Andra. Büscher. Janine. Stolz. Hendrik. Samonte. Irene E.. Kurtz. Joachim. Kalbe. Martin. Effects of environmental variation on host-parasite interaction in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Zoology (Jena, Germany). August 2016. 27289265. free. 11858/00-001M-0000-002C-08E0-3. free.
  4. 10.1098/rspb.2015.2097. 1471-2954. 282. 1821. 20152097. Louhi. Katja-Riikka. Sundberg. Lotta-Riina. Jokela. Jukka. Karvonen. Anssi. Interactions among bacterial strains and fluke genotypes shape virulence of co-infection. Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 2015-12-22. 26674949. 4707758.
  5. Soldanova M., Selbach C., Sures B., Kostadinova A. & Perez-del-Olmo A. (2010). "Larval trematode communities in Radix auricularia and Lymnaea stagnalis in a reservoir system of the Ruhr River". Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3: 56. .
  6. Karami, A. M., Duan, Y., Kania, P. W., & Buchmann, K. (2022). Responses towards eyefluke (Diplostomum pseudospathaceum) in different genetic lineages of rainbow trout. PloS one, 17(10), e0276895.
  7. Lebedeva . Darya I. . Mendsaikhan . Bud . Yakovleva . Galina A. . Zaytsev . Dmitry O.. 2020 . Parasites of Oreoleuciscus potanini (Cyprinidae) from lakes of Khar Us Nuur National Park (Mongolia) . Nature Conservation Research . 5 . Suppl.2 . 10.24189/ncr.2020.042. free .
  8. Georgieva, S., Soldánová, M., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dangel, D. R., Sitko, J., Sures, B., & Kostadinova, A. (2013). Molecular prospecting for European Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) reveals cryptic diversity. International Journal for Parasitology, 43(1): 57-72.
  9. Pérez-del-Olmo, Ana & Georgieva, Simona & Pula, Héctor & Kostadinova, Aneta. (2014). Molecular and morphological evidence for three species of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae), parasites of fishes and fish-eating birds in Spain. Parasites & vectors, 7, 502.

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