Host-parasite associations of Eimeria spp. (Apicomplexa:Eimeriidae) in kangaroos and wallabies of the genus Macropus (Marsupialia:Macropodidae)

Faecal samples from 514 kangaroos and wallabies representing 12 species of the genus Macropus were examined for oocysts of Eimeria spp. Six species of Eimeria were redescribed from their type hosts, and on the basis of finding homologous oocysts in the faeces of other Macropus spp., host ranges for these coccidia were extended. Eimeria hestermani Mykytowycz, 1964 is redescribed from M. giganteus (eastern grey kangaroo) and is described from M. fuliginosus (western grey kangaroo), M. rufogriseus (red-necked wallaby), M. dorsalis (black-striped wallaby), and M. eugenii (tammar wallaby). E. toganmainensis Mykytowycz, 1964 is redescribed from M. rufus (red kangaroo) and the host range is extended to M. giganteus, M. fuliginosus, M. rufogriseus and M. eugenii. E. wilcanniensis Mykytowycz, 1964 is redescribed from M. rufus, and the host range is extended to M. giganteus, M. fuliginosus and M. robustus (euro or wallaroo). E. macropodis Wenyon & Scott, 1925 is redescribed from M. rufogriseus, and is described from M. giganteus, M. fuliginosus, M. rufus, M. irma (western brush wallaby), M. parryi (whip-tailed wallaby), M. dorsalis, M. eugenii, and M. parma (parma wallaby). E. fausti Yakimoff & Matschoulsky, 1936, E. cunnamullensis Mykytowycz, 1964 and E. purchasei Mykytowycz, 1964 are synonymized with E. macropodis. E. marsupialium Yakimoff & Matschoulsky, 1936 is redescribed from M. giganteus, and from M. fuliginosus. E. gungahlinensis Mykytowycz, 1964 is redescribed from M. fuliginosus, and from M. giganteus. Seven new species of Eimeria are described. E. flindersi, new species, is described from M. eugenii, M. rufogriseus, and M. antilopinus (antilopine wallaroo). E. prionotemni, new species, is described from M. eugenii, M. parryi, M. rufogriseus, M. agilis (agile wallaby) and M. dorsalis. E. mykytowyczi, new species, is described from M. agilis, M. antilopinus, and M. parryi. E. parryi, new species, is described from M. parryi. E. yathongensis, new species, is described from M. fuliginosus and M. giganteus. E. parma, new species, is described from M. parma, and E. desmaresti, new species, is described from M. rufogriseus. E. kogoni Mykytowycz, 1964, and E. rufusi Prasad, 1960 are considered species inquirendae. The host-parasite associations of these coccidia, and of similar species of Eimeria in other genera of Macropodoid marsupials, are discussed in relation to the postulated phylogeny of the hosts.     

西藏林芝真蚋亚属三新种（双翅目：蚋科）

本文记述西藏林芝真蚋亚属Ｅｕｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ三种：凸端真蚋Ｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ（Ｅｕｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ）ｃｏｎｃａｖｕｓｔｙｌｕｍｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．、林芝真蚋Ｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ（Ｅｕｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ）ｌｉｎｇｚｉｅｎｓｅｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．、裂缘真蚋Ｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ（Ｅｕｓｉｍｕｌｉｕｍ）ｓｃｈｉｚｏｌｏｍｕｎｓｐ．ｎｏｖ 。     

Synonymy of Ejectosporus magnus and Simuliomyces spica, and a new species, Ejectosporus trisporus, from winter-emerging stoneflies

The Trichomycete, Ejectosporus magnus, from Allocapnia spp. was determined to be a vegetative spore stage of another harpellid, Simuliomyces spica. A voucher slide of E. magnus made from a stonefly nymph that was part of the same collection as the holotype had thalli bearing trichospores of both E. magnus and S. spica. I conclude that these are one species; therefore Ejectosporus is emended and the species is treated as E. spica. Also, a new species, E. trisporus, is described from Allocapnia pygmaea (Plecoptera: Capniidae) collected in eastern Canada. This species has vegetative spores and trichospores with characteristics similar to E. spica, but the two species are separated by differences in zygospore sizes.     

Turkish bush-crickets of the genus Eupholidoptera (Decticinae)

Abstract. The Turkish Eupholidoptera species are reviewed and a key to them provided. Five new species are described alongwith the previously unnknown male of E.excisa (Karabaĝ), and females of E.tauricola (Ramme) and E. werneri Ramme. Following examination of specimens from Cyprus the previously unknown male of E.cypria Ramme is described. A new subspecies of E.cypria is described from southern Turkey. Diagnostic characters of all species are given. A check-list and a distribution map are provided for the Turkish species of Eupholidoptera.     

Comparison of gene flow among species that occur within the same geographic locations versus gene flow among populations within species reveals introgression among several Elymus species

One of the challenges in evolutionary biology is to understand the evolution of speciation with incomplete reproductive isolation as many taxa have continued gene flow both during and after speciation. Comparison of population structure between sympatric and allopatric populations can reveal specific introgression and determine if introgression occurs in a unidirectional or bidirectional manner. Simple sequence repeat markers were used to characterize sympatric and allopatric population structure of plant species, Elymus alaskanus (Scribn. and Merr.) Löve, E. caninus L., E. fibrosus (Schrenk) Tzvel., and E. mutabilis (Drobov) Tzvelev. Our results showed that genetic diversity (H_E) at species level is E. caninus (0.5355) > E. alaskanus (0.4511) > E. fibrosus (0.3924) > E. mutabilis (0.3764), suggesting that E. caninus and E. alaskanus are more variable than E. fibrosus and E. mutabilis. Gene flow between species that occurs within the same geographic locations versus gene flow between populations within species was compared to provide evidence of introgression. Our results indicated that gene flow between species that occur within the same geographic location is higher than that between populations within species, suggesting that gene flow resulting from introgressive hybridization might have occurred among the sympatric populations of these species, and may play an important role in partitioning of genetic diversity among and within populations. The migration rate from E. fibrosus to E. mutabilis is highest (0.2631) among the four species studied. Asymmetrical rates of gene flow among four species were also observed. The findings highlight the complex evolution of these four Elymus species.     

江西真长须螨属记述(蜱螨亚纲:长须螨科)(英)

本文描述了采自江西的5种真长须螨并列出检索表,其中包括3新种:江西真长须螨Eustigmaeus jiangxiensis Hu, Chen and Huang, sp. nov. ;牯岭真长须螨E. gulingensis Hu and Chen, sp. nov. ;龙氏真长须螨E. longi Hu and Chen, sp. nov. 和1中国新纪录种,塞氏真长须螨E. segnis(Koch)。     

The taxonomic relationships within the genus Excoecaria L. (Euphorbiaceae) based on leaf morphology and rDNA sequence data

The tropical Indo-Pacific genus Excoecaria L. (Euphorbiaceae) has several closely related species in Australia whose taxonomic relationships are unclear. The most widely reported species in Australia is the mangrove species Excoecaria agallocha L. (type species), whose taxonomic and geographic limits are difficult to define from its closely related species or sub-species. Two additional taxa have also been described but not clearly differentiated from the type species: Excoecaria dallachyana Baillon and Excoecaria ovalis Endl. This project aimed to determine the taxonomic relationships of the Australian Excoecaria species using both leaf morphological data and DNA sequence data from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of ribosomal genes. The nucleotide differences in the examined ITS1 region show that E. agallocha from eastern Australia and E. ovalis from Western Australia respectively, are genetically uniform within species but differ from each other consistently, thus supporting species status. The leaf morphological data also support this view: single factor analysis of variance consistently separated E. ovalis from E. agallocha on the basis of leaf width, leaf length and length of petiole. In contrast, E. ovalis from the Gulf of Carpentaria differs only slightly from E. ovalis in Western Australia, but no evidence was found to suggest any leaf morphological differentiation within this species. The analysis also suggests that E. dallachyana is not closely related to either mangrove species E. agallocha or E. ovalis, despite superficial morphological similarities.     

Two new species of Echinobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Diphyllidea) from the Persian Gulf

Two new species of diphyllidean cestodes are described from the Persian Gulf, Echinobothrium persiense n. sp. from Rhinobatos punctifer Compagno & Randall and Echinobothrium hormozganiense n. sp. from Mustelus mosis Hemprich & Ehrenberg. E. persiense is the first record of a species of Echinobothrium van Beneden, 1849 from R. punctifer and these two new species increase the number of diphyllideans known from the Persian Gulf from one to three. The number of apical hooks of E. persiense (hook formula: {5-6 6/5 5-6}) is distinct from all other species in the genus except for E. affine Diesing, 1863, E. harfordi McVicar, 1976, E. bonasum Williams & Campbell, 1980, E. fautleyae Tyler & Caira, 1999, E. syrtense (Neifar, Tyler & Euzet, 2001) Tyler, 2006 (emend), E. chisholmae Jones & Beveridge, 2001, E. tetabuanense Ivanov & Caira, 2012, E. sematanense Ivanov & Caira, 2012 and E. weipaense Ivanov & Caira, 2012. Echinobothrium persiense can be distinguished from all other species of the genus with 11 apical hooks by a combination of the following features: armed cephalic peduncle, testes arranged in a single column, lateral hooklets arranged in two groups, U-shaped ovary, cephalic peduncle length (124-181 μm), genital pore and cirrus-sac position, and by having 10-14 spines per row on the cephalic peduncle. Echinobothrium hormozganiense has a hook formula of {12-15 16/15 12-15} and is similar to E. musteli Pintner, 1889, E. notoguidoi Ivanov, 1997 and E. diamanti Ivanov & Lipshitz, 2006 by possessing additional spines between the rostellum and the bothria. It differs from E. musteli by having an H-shaped ovary and lateral hooklets arranged in two lateral groups, and the number of spines per row on the cephalic peduncle (18-21) readily differentiates it from E. notoguidoi (24-26) and E. diamanti (95-118). With these two new species, Echinobothrium van Beneden, 1849 now includes 45 valid species.     

Specific status of Echinocardium cordatum, E. australe and E. zealandicum (Echinoidea: Spatangoida) around New Zealand, with comments on the relation of morphological variation to environment

The specific status of the heart-urchin Echinocardium cordatum (Pennant) around New Zealand is discussed in the context of the suggestion that the New Zealand form of this spatangoid is sufficiently distinct from E. cordatum to be regarded as a separate species, namely E. australe Gray or E. zealandicum Gray. A brief history of the problem is outlined and it is demonstrated that, from the beginning of the present century, specialist opinion has favoured the unitary species concept and been unenthusiastic about the validity of Gray's species. The pattern of variability revealed by a comparative morphological study of E. cordatum from the British Isles and E. australe/zealandicum from New Zealand did not support the specific separation of the Australasian species. Alternatively, it is proposed that the morphological structure of the test in E. cordatum may be considerably influenced by sediment texture and that the distinctiveness of some of the New Zealand specimens is related to their occupation of very fine deposits, which are not commonly exploited by E. cordatum around the British Isles.     

中国斑水螟属系统分类研究及二新种记述(鳞翅目,草螟科,水螟亚科)

对中国斑水螟属Eoophyla Swinhoe进行了系统研究,共记录16种.其中有2新种和中国3新纪录种,它们是:暗斑水螟(新种)E.abstrusa sp.nov.,该种与华斑水螟E.sinensis(Hampson)相似,主要区别在于新种色暗,沿前翅后缘无新月形白斑,雄性外生殖器抱器瓣顶端凹陷,雌性外生殖器前、后表皮突等长;显斑水螟(新种)E. evidens spnov.,该种与短斑水螟E.hamalis(Snellen)相似,主要区别在于新种沿前翅后缘无白斑,外线外白区小,雄性外生殖器爪形突端部尖,雌性外生殖器具2对囊突区;黑斑水螟E.melanops(Hampson)新纪录于广西上思和贵州江口,国外分布于泰国和印度;长鞭斑水螟E.nigripilosa Yoshiyasu新纪录于云南勐腊,国外分布于泰国;泰斑水螟E.thaiensisYoshiyasu新纪录于广西上思,国外分布于泰国.文中给出了中国斑水螟属分种检索表,提供了新种成虫照片和外生殖器特征图.模式标本保存于南开大学生物系.     

Cell-mediated immunity to Eimeria in the fowl: the absence of cross-species protection is not due to the lack of cross-reactive T cells.

Immunity to Eimeria species in the fowl has been shown to be species specific and it has been proposed that the lack of cross-protection between the species of Eimeria is due to the absence of T cells which recognize antigens from a heterologous species. When this hypothesis was tested the results showed that antigens from E. tenella elicited a strong specific response by cells from birds immune to E. tenella. In contrast cells from birds which were immune to E. acervulina responded to a similar magnitude to both E. tenella and E. acervulina antigens. This indicates that the lack of cross-protection is not due to the lack of cross-reactive T cells.     

A new species of Echinolaena (Poaceae: Paniceae) from Ecuador and a key to the New World species of the genus

Echinolaena ecuadoriana sp. nov. from the provinces of El Oro and Guayas in Ecuador is described and compared with E. standleyi . A key to the New World species of Echinolaena is provided, as well as illustration of the inflorescences and spikelets of all the 6 New World species ( E. ecuadoriana, E. gracilis, E. inflexa, E. minarum, E. oplismenoides , and E. standelyi ).     

A new species of Everhartia associated with leaf spots of Phoenix hanceana from Hong Kong

A new species of Everhartia, E. phoenicis , is described and illustrated. The fungus was collected on living leaves of Phoenix hanceana in Twisk, Tai Mo Shan. Hong Kong. Everhartia phoenicis is associated with yellow spots on living leaves and rachides of the host, and is the only species in the genus known to be pathogenic. It differs from other species of Everhartia in producing symmetric, hyaline, aseptate, horseshoe-shaped conidia. Everhartia phoenicis is compared with other species in the genus. Everhartia is very similar to Delortia and the differences between these two genera are discussed. Two species of Everhartia, E. aquatica and E. tumidoapuis arc transferred from Delortia .     

Phylogenetic position of Eimeria antrozoi, a bat coccidium (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) and its relationship to morphologically similar Eimeria spp. from bats and rodents based on nuclear 18S and plastid 23S rDNA sequences.

Partial plastid 23S and nuclear 18S rDNA genes were amplified and sequenced from 2 morphologically similar Eimeria species. E. antrozoi from a bat (Antrozous pallidus) and E. arizonensis from deer mice (Peromyscus spp.), as well as some other Eimeria species from bats and rodents. The phylogenetic trees clearly separated E. antrozoi from E. arizonensis. The phylogenies based on plastid 23S rDNA data and combined data of both plastid and nuclear genes grouped 2 bat Eimeria and 3 morphologically similar Eimeria species from rodents into 2 separate clades with high bootstrap support (100%, 3 rodent Eimeria species; 72-97%, 2 bat Eimeria species), which supports E. antrozoi as a valid species. The rodent Eimeria species did not form a monophyletic group. The 2 bat Eimeria species formed a clade with the 3 morphologically similar rodent Eimeria species (E. arizonensis, E. albigulae, E. onychomysis, all from cricetid rodents) with 100% bootstrap support, whereas 2 other rodent Eimeria species (E. nieschulzi, E. falciformis, from murid rodents) formed a separate clade with 100% bootstrap support. This suggests that the 2 Eimeria species from bats might be derived from rodent Eimeria species and may have arisen as a result of lateral host transfer between rodent and bat hosts.     

Eunicid polychaetes (Annelida) from Scandinavian and adjacent waters. Family Eunicidae

Four species of Eunice [E. pennata (0. F. Müller, 1776), E. dubitata Fauchald, 1974, E. norvegica (Linné, 1767), and E. harassii (Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833)] and one species of Marphysa [M . sp., close to M. sanguinea (Montagu, 1815)] are described and a branchial formula is proposed. The genus Marphysa is reported from Scandinavian waters for the first time. The specimen of Marphysa studied has tridentate composite falcigers as well as composite spinigers in the anterior setigers, whereas M. sanguinea has been reported to have composite spinigers only. The geographical distribution of all five species is given and intraspecific variation is discussed. Reports of E. oerstedii (Stimpson, 1853) from Europe are discussed and specimens of this species are compared with E. dubitata . The behaviour of E. pennata and E. dubitata has been observed in aquaria.     

The rare silver gum, Eucalyptus cordata, is leaving its trace in the organellar gene pool of Eucalyptus globulus

The process of genetic assimilation of rare species by hybridizing congeners has been documented in a number of plant genera. This raises the possibility that some of the genetic diversity found in phylogeographical studies of widespread species has been acquired through hybridization with species that are now rare or extinct. In this fine-scale phylogeographical analysis, we show that a rare eucalypt species is leaving its trace in the chloroplast genome of a more abundant congener. The heart-leafed silver gum, Eucalyptus cordata, is a rare endemic of south-eastern Tasmania. Its populations are scattered amidst populations of more abundant related species, including the Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus. Using 339 samples from across the full range of both species, we compared chloroplast (cp) DNA haplotype phylogeography in E. globulus and E. cordata. The genealogy and distribution of chloroplast haplotypes suggest that E. globulus has acquired cpDNA from E. cordata in at least four different mixed populations. Shared haplotypes are highest in E. globulus sampled within 2 km of known E. cordata populations and drop to zero at a distance of 25 km from the nearest known E. cordata population. Localized haplotype sharing occurs in the absence of obvious hybrid zones or locally shared nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Given that the future loss of E. cordata from some mixed populations is likely, these findings indicate that phylogeographical analyses of organellar DNA should consider the possibility of introgression, even from species that have been eliminated from the sites of interest.     

食植瓢虫属Epilachna中国新记录种及两种幼虫的形态记述(鞘翅目:瓢虫科)

记述食植瓢虫属 Epilachna Chevrolat3种中国新记录种及其 2种幼虫形态 ,编制了该属中国已知幼虫种类检索表。新记录种和幼虫标本均保存于南京农业大学昆虫标本室。     

Revision of the genus Exalloniscus Stebbing, 1911 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)

The present taxonomic revision recognizes 16 species of Exalloniscus. Seven species, namely E. maschwitzi, E, caudatvs, E. malaccensis, E. bicoloratus from West Malaysia, E. bomeanus from East Malaysia, E. beroni from northern Thailand and E. vietnamensis from Vietnam, are described as new. Lectotypes off. coecus (Dollfus, 1898) and E. albus (Dollfus, 1898) are designated. Diagnostic characters of all the species are illustrated. A map and comments on the distribution and biology of the 16 species are included.     

我国北方地区裸胞壳属(Emericela)的种

对１４０２份来自于东北、华北及西北地区的土样进行裸胞壳属（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａ）菌的分离。结合菌落形态及扫描电镜下子囊孢子的形态将各菌鉴定到种。结果表明我国北方地区分布有８个种,１个变种,分别是无冠裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａａｃｒｉｓｔａｔａ）、皱折裸胞壳（４Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｃｏｒｒｕｇａｔａ）、茴香裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｆｏｅｎｉｃｕｌｉｃｏｌａ）、宫治裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｍｉｙａｊｉ）、构巢裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｎｉｄｕｌａｎｓｖａｒ．ｎｉｄｕｌａｎｓ）、构巢裸胞壳宽脊变种（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｎｉｄｕｌａｎｓｖａｒ．ｌａｔａ）、四脊裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｑｕａｄｒｉｌｉｎｅａｔａ）、褶皱裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｒｕｇｕｌｏｓａ）及波状裸胞壳（Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｕｎｄｕｌａｔａ）。除银川地区以Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａａｃｒｉｓｔａｔａ为优势菌外,各地区以Ｅｍｅｒｉｃｅｌａｎｉｄｕｌａｎｓ最为常见。文中对常见菌种进行了简要的概述,对在我国较少见的种进行了详细的描述和讨论