小鞘指环虫种群的聚集性研究

本文中建立了一个衡量聚集性的指标－聚集度Ａ,并用该指标结合方差／均数和负二项分布的参数ｋ值分析了小鞘指环虫（Ｄａｃｔｙｌｏｇｙｒｕｓｖａｇｉｎｕｌａｔｕｓ）种群在其宿主鲢（Ｈｙｐｏｐｈｔｈａｌｍｉｃｈｔｈｙｓｍｏｌｉｔｒｉｘ）种群中分布的聚集程度与感染率和丰度的关系。结果表明该虫种群的聚集程度随感染率及丰度的上升而呈现下降的特点,作为衡量聚集性的指标,聚集度要优于ｋ值,而后者又优于方差与均数之比,     

鲢和草鱼鳃部寄生单殖吸虫的种群分布和季节动态

作者在 1995— 1996年期间 ,对同一口池塘中的鲢和草鱼寄生鲢指环虫 (Dactylogyrushypophthalmichthys)和鳃片指环虫 (D .lamellatus)进行了种群分布和季节动态研究。两种单殖吸虫种群丰盛度的季节变化与其感染率的变化基本相似 :鲢指环虫 2— 3月种群的丰盛度逐渐增加 ,4月达到高峰 ,随后逐渐下降 ,在秋冬季维持在一个较低的水平上 ;鳃片指环虫在 11至来年 3月种群的丰盛度逐渐上升 ,4月达到高峰 ,随后迅速下降 ,在夏秋季维持在一个较低的水平。     

额尔齐斯河高体雅罗鱼指环虫种群动态及中国一新记录种（英文）

2009年4月到2012年7月对额尔齐斯河(中国段)高体雅罗鱼鳃部寄生的指环虫进行了取样调查,以期了解该鱼指环虫的种群生态学特点。结果表明,高体雅罗鱼共感染了三种指环虫,分别为号筒指环虫、小刺指环虫、大翼指环虫,该鱼的总感染率为28.47%,平均感染强度为7.39(1—42)。感染率、感染强度在不同体长组的宿主中表现出不同的变化趋势,指环虫的感染率在30 cm以上的宿主中达到最大,为50%,而在L10范围内未发现感染;在不同体长组宿主中指环虫种群的分布类型主要为聚集分布,另外,根据形态学特征鉴定大翼指环虫(Dactylogyrus alatus f.major Linsyow,1878)为我国指环虫属一新记录种,论文对其主要形态特征进行了描述并绘制了特征图,同时与寄生于高体雅罗鱼鳃上的国内已记述指环虫属虫种的主要形态特征作了比较。     

野生与人工养殖鲫鳃部寄生指环虫的群落结构简

为了阐明养殖环境对鱼类寄生指环虫群落的影响,研究调查了湖北省梁子湖和湖北省石首市养殖池塘中鲫鳃部寄生指环虫的种类和感染情况。在梁子湖中的野生鲫共发现6种指环虫,分别为坏鳃指环虫(Dactylogyrus vastator)、中型指环虫(D.intermedius)、弧形指环虫(D.arcuatus)、弓茎指环虫(D.baueri)、美丽指环虫(D.formosus)、望外指环虫(D.inexpeatatus);在养殖池塘中,除了望外指环虫外,其他5种指环虫均有发现。分析结果表明,来自于梁子湖野生鲫鳃部的坏鳃指环虫的平均丰度以及其他4种指环虫(不含望外指环虫)的感染率与平均丰度明显高于养殖池塘的。梁子湖中的指环虫群落平均物种丰富度、平均寄生虫数量以及Brillouin多样性指数都明显高于养殖池塘的;梁子湖野生鲫寄生指环虫的优势种是弧形指环虫(0.54),而池塘中的是坏鳃指环虫(0.76)。在宿主密度、种群大小、光照和溶氧等影响指环虫群落的因子中,溶氧可能是最主要因子。     

野生与人工养殖鲫鳃部寄生指环虫的群落结构

为了阐明养殖环境对鱼类寄生指环虫群落的影响,研究调查了湖北省梁子湖和湖北省石首市养殖池塘中鲫鳃部寄生指环虫的种类和感染情况。在梁子湖中的野生鲫共发现6种指环虫,分别为坏鳃指环虫（Dactylogyrus vastator）、中型指环虫（D. intermedius）、弧形指环虫（D. arcuatus）、弓茎指环虫（D. baueri）、美丽指环虫（D. formosus）、望外指环虫（D. inexpeatatus）;在养殖池塘中,除了望外指环虫外,其他5种指环虫均有发现。分析结果表明,来自于梁子湖野生鲫鳃部的坏鳃指环虫的平均丰度以及其他4种指环虫（不含望外指环虫）的感染率与平均丰度明显高于养殖池塘的。梁子湖中的指环虫群落平均物种丰富度、平均寄生虫数量以及Brillouin多样性指数都明显高于养殖池塘的;梁子湖野生鲫寄生指环虫的优势种是弧形指环虫（0.54）,而池塘中的是坏鳃指环虫（0.76）。在宿主密度、种群大小、光照和溶氧等影响指环虫群落的因子中,溶氧可能是最主要因子。       

红鳍原Ba鳃部寄生单殖吸虫的种群研究

单殖吸虫的感染率和丰盛度表现出明显的季节变化。三种指环虫的丰盛度高峰依次出现在4、6、8月。单殖吸虫对寄生部位的选择性与种群数量有关,时间生态位的分离,正是种间竞争的结果。     

红鳍原鲌鳃部寄生单殖吸虫的种群研究

单殖吸虫的感染率和丰盛度表现出明显的季节变化.三种指环虫的丰盛度高峰依次出现在4、6、8月.单殖吸虫对寄生部位的选择性与种群数量有关,时间生态位的分离,正是种间竞争的结果.       

鲫寄生7种指环虫的形态学和分子鉴定

指环虫(Dactylogyrus sp.)是鲫(Carassius auratus)鳃部重要的致病寄生虫, 为调查鲫的指环虫种类, 采用形态学与分子生物学相结合的方法, 对梁子湖鲫的单殖吸虫进行了种类鉴定。通过对指环虫后吸器几丁质结构的形态特征描述和测量, 发现鳃部共有7种指环虫, 分别鉴定为坏鳃指环虫(D. vastator)、中型指环虫(D. intermedius)、弧形指环虫(D. arcuatus)、弓茎指环虫(D. baueri)、美丽指环虫(D. formosus)、望外指环虫(D. inexpeatatus)及叉茎指环虫(D. dulkeiti)。中型指环虫、美丽指环虫和叉茎指环虫与GenBank中相应指环虫的18S+ITS1+5.8S rDNA序列的相似性均高于99.0%, 弧形指环虫的基因序列为首次提交。而坏鳃指环虫与GenBank中相应的指环虫序列相似度仅有96.37%, 遗传距离分析显示, 坏鳃指环虫的种内遗传距离较大(0.004—0.058), 但小于坏鳃指环虫与中型指环虫的种间遗传距离(0.046—0.064)。研究重新描述我国鲫7种指环虫主要形态学分类特征, 并提供分子分类数据, 为鲫寄生指环虫的种类鉴定提供参考依据。     

额尔齐斯河流域湖拟鲤寄生指环虫——中国分布新记录种十字花指环虫

2021年7月在额尔齐斯河哈巴河河段于湖拟鲤（Rutilus rutilus lacustris）鳃部发现有指环虫寄生。进行形态比较,发现其形态与国内记载寄生于湖拟鲤的指环虫差异明显：本研究采集虫体的交接管基部膨大呈“8”字形,随后管径均匀,延伸呈弯曲状,形似“6”形;中央大钩内突长超过外突长,背连接片呈“一”字型且中部弯曲,腹联结片呈蝶形。与已报道指环虫形态数据比较,本研究采集的虫体偏小,其后吸器与Dactylogyruscaballeroi的形态最为接近,但交接器不同;与其余指环虫相比,十字花指环虫（D. crucifer）的腹联结片呈蝶形,而极小指环虫（D. rarissimus）呈倒“T”字型,湖拟鲤指环虫（D.rutili）呈“十”字型,双髻指环虫（D.sphyrna）和维氏指环虫（D.vistulae）没有腹联结片。在背联结片形态中,十字花指环虫（D.crucifer）呈现“一”字型,而维氏指环虫呈“V”字型。本研究所采集的虫体结构特征明显不同于国内已记载寄生在湖拟鲤上的双髻指环虫、维氏指环虫和湖拟鲤指环虫,而与俄罗斯记载的寄生于湖拟鲤鳃部的十字花指环虫形态高度相似。28S...     

鲈鱼寄生逆转指环虫的分类地位

采用单个虫体PCR扩增、序列测定与分析的方法,对寄生于鲈鱼及鲤科鱼类的4种指环虫的核糖体28SrRNA基因5'端部分序列和内转录间隔区1(ITS1)进行了研究,并采用PAUP软件中的最大简约法(most parsimo-ny,MP)和邻接法(neighborjoining,NJ)构建了28S rDNA分子系统树.结果显示,逆转指环虫明显地嵌合于其它3种指环虫之间,不宜将其从指环虫属中移出另立似小突虫属,从而进一步明确了逆转指环虫的分类地位.     

鲢、鳙锚头鳋的生物学及其防治的研究

本文对鲢、鳙锚头鳋的生物学、病后获得免疫以及药物治疗进行了探讨。通过试验与观察得出以下几点结论:1)成虫产卵、虫卵孵化的最适水温是20-25℃。2)当水温15-20℃时,幼虫发育约需14-16天;26-31℃时,约需7天。3)在鱼种培育阶段的7月中旬至9月中旬,当水温25-37℃时,成虫的平均寿命为20天。4)成虫可分“童虫”、“壮虫”和“老虫”三种形态。5)感染一定数量锚头鳋的鲢、鳙鱼种,在虫脱、病愈后可以获得明显的免疫力。6)0.3-0.5 ppm的晶体敌百虫全池泼洒,能有效地控制较大水体里的鲢、鳙锚头鳋病。7)锚头鳋的寿命和鱼种病后获得免疫与防治此病有密切的关系。       

Effects of water quality and trophic status on helminth infections in the cyprinid fish, Schizothorax niger Heckel, 1838 from three lakes in the Kashmir Himalayas

Water quality greatly influences the population density of aquatic biota, including parasites. In order to evaluate the relationship between fish parasites and water quality in Kashmir Himalayas, we assessed helminth parasite densities in Schizothorax niger Heckel, 1838 (an endemic cyprinid fish of Kashmir) from three lakes, namely Anchar, Manasbal and Dal, which reflected the varied stages of eutrophication. The overall prevalence of helminth infections was higher in the hypertrophic Anchar Lake (prevalence = 18.6%) compared to Manasbal Lake, which was the least eutrophied (prevalence = 6.4%). Furthermore, mean prevalence of monoxenous and heteroxenous parasites was higher in lakes containing higher levels of water degradation (Anchar and Dal). The mean number of helminth species per fish host was the highest in the hypertrophic lake (1.3 ± 0.3) in comparison to the least eutrophic lake (0.2 ± 1.5). Variability of calculated infection indices (prevalence, mean intensity and mean abundance) revealed that helminth parasite composition in the fish was affected by the lakes' environmental stress (degraded water quality). Therefore, data on the density of helminth parasites in fish can provide supplementary information on the pollution status of a water body.     

Helminth communities of the lesser sandeel Ammodytes tobianus L. off the west coast of Ireland

The helminth parasites present in 412 lesser sandeels (Ammodytes tobianus) taken from June 1996 to May 1997 from the Aran Islands on the west coast of Ireland were examined. Ten helminth parasite species were recorded, and more than 92% of the sandeels were infected with at least 1 helminth species. Seven of the species were digeneans, including Brachyphallus crenatus, Hemiurus communis, Derogenes varicus, Lecithaster gibbosus, Opechona bacillaris, Cryptocotyle lingua, and Galactosomum lacteum; 2 nematodes, including Hysterothylacium sp. and Contracaecum sp.; and 1 cestode, Scolex pleuronectis. Three of the 7 digenean species were either larvae or immature. Only 2 species, the digeneans G. lacteum and H. communis, had prevalences greater than 50%. The dominant species was G. lacteum, accounting for 67% of all parasites present. The relationship between spawned groups, host length, and season versus the abundance, prevalence, species richness, and the total number of parasites in the infracommunities was investigated. No difference was found between the parasite communities of the 2 spawning races of the host population. Mean abundance and prevalence of the different parasite species showed seasonal variation. Numbers of parasite species and numbers of parasites increased with fish length. The role of A. tobianus as an intermediate host for helminths was assessed; it was determined that most were infectious to birds or mammals, with the majority of the parasite species being autogenic (infectious to fish). The mean number of parasites per fish was nearly a quarter of the value recorded for A. tobianus in the North Sea, where a much higher intensity of infection was recorded.     

Susceptibility of carp, roach and goldfish to a Dermocystidium-like organism

A visceral form of a Dermocystidium -like organism was found at 13% prevalence in a carp and in 7·4% in a roach population from Greece. Successful experimental transmission was recorded only in carp. Pathology of the parasite in experimental fish and naturally infected fish was similar. ©1998 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles     

Seasonal population dynamics of the nematode Cystidicoloides tenuissima (Zeder) from the River Swincombe, England

The seasonal population dynamics of adult and larval Cystidicoloides tenuissima were studied in its definitive hosts brown trout, Salmo trutta and juvenile Atlantic salmon, S. salar , and mayfly intermediate host, Leptophlebia marginata , from the River Swincombe, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, U.K. Infective larvae were present in each mayfly generation for almost its entire duration in the steam benthos. The infection parameters (prevalence and mean intensity) and maturation in the fish indicated C. tenuissima was an annual parasite exhibiting a seasonal periodicity and also systematic variation with the host age. Maturation was correlated to river water temperature. Infection parameters increased from September to May, then declined in June and July and remained relatively constant for the rest of the summer. Variation in the fish infection parameters over time, site, and host species appeared to be controlled by transmission related events; the availability of infective larvae, host feeding behaviour and water temperature. The availability of infective larvae and host diet controlled the rate at which parasites were added to the parasite population, but the pattern of gains and losses was determined by a temperature dependent rejection response.     

Seasonal dietary shifts enhance parasite transmission to lake salmonids during ice cover

Changes in abiotic and biotic factors between seasons in subarctic lake systems are often profound, potentially affecting the community structure and population dynamics of parasites over the annual cycle. However, few winter studies exist and interactions between fish hosts and their parasites are typically confined to snapshot studies restricted to the summer season whereas host‐parasite dynamics during the ice‐covered period rarely have been explored. The present study addresses seasonal patterns in the infections of intestinal parasites and their association with the diet of sympatric living Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) in Lake Takvatn, a subarctic lake in northern Norway. In total, 354 Arctic charr and 203 brown trout were sampled from the littoral habitat between June 2017 and May 2018. Six trophically transmitted intestinal parasite taxa were identified and quantified, and their seasonal variations were contrasted with dietary information from both stomachs and intestines of the fish. The winter period proved to be an important transmission window for parasites, with increased prevalence and intensity of amphipod‐transmitted parasites in Arctic charr and parasites transmitted through fish prey in brown trout. In Arctic charr, seasonal patterns in parasite infections resulted mainly from temporal changes in diet toward amphipods, whereas host body size and the utilization of fish prey were the main drivers in brown trout. The overall dynamics in the community structure of parasites chiefly mirrored the seasonal dietary shifts of their fish hosts.     

Marked variation in parasite resistance between two wild populations of the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae)

This is the first study to demonstrate significant differences between two natural Trinidadian guppy populations in susceptibility to a pathogenic monogenean parasite, Gyrodactylus turnbulli . Following experimental infection with an isogenic laboratory culture of G. turnbulli , fish from the Upper Aripo (UA) lost parasites more slowly and carried up to three times as many parasites at peak infection than did those from the Lower Aripo (LA). The UA population appeared to be more susceptible than the LA fish, even though fish of both populations were naïve to this particular laboratory strain of G. turnbulli and had not encountered any gyrodactylid infection for at least 65 days. The parasite infection reduced the feeding response and feeding activity of UA and LA fish to a similar extent. Our findings suggest that this ectoparasite may have an important impact on the evolutionary biology of guppies (and possibly of other teleosts), particularly as the prevalence of Gyrodactylus infection in natural populations may be as high as 50%. We discuss the role of parasite infections on natural and sexual selection, the good genes model and the implications for immunogenetics in small genetically isolated host populations.  © 2003 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2003, 79 , 645–651.     

Seasonal dynamics and distribution of the digenean Phyllodistomum pawlovskii (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) in the bullhead catfish, Pseudobagrus fulvidraco, in a lake of China

Seasonal population dynamics of the digenean Phyllodistomum pawlovskii in the urinary bladder of the bullhead catfish, Pseudobagrus fulvidraco, were investigated in Liangzi Lake in the flood plain of the Yangtze River in China from February 2001 to July 2002. The overall prevalence of the parasite was high, 41.5% (n = 1,476), while the mean abundance was relatively low, 1.24 +/- 2.11. The parasite exhibited evident seasonality in changes of prevalence and abundance. In brief, prevalence and abundance were very low in midwinter (January), but increased and remained relatively high in other seasons and months. The distribution pattern of this parasite in the fish was overdispersed, with a variance to mean ratio > 1, but its frequency distribution could not be described by the negative binomial model. There were positive correlations between the number of the parasites per fish and the age and length of the fish; a peaked age-parasite abundance curve was not detected in the parasite-host association. It is suggested that the parasite P. pawlovskii has little effect on the population structure of the bullhead catfish.     

Ecological parasitology of polymorphic Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus (L.), in Thingvallavatn, Iceland

The helminth endoparasite fauna in four Arctic charr morphs, Salvelinus alpinus (L.), small benthivorous (SB), large benthivorous (LB), planktivorous (PL) and piscivorous (PI) charr, from Thingvallavatn, Iceland consisted of: Crepidostomum farionis (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae); Diplosttomum sp. (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae); Eubothrium salvelini; Diphyllobothrium dendriticum; D. ditremum (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidae); Proteocephalus longicollis (Cestoda: Proteocepha-lidae): and Philonema oncorhynchi (Nematoda: Filariidae). The morphs exhibited distinctive patterns in prevalences and parasite burdens (mean intensity and mean relative density of parasites). SB charr had high prevalence and parasite burden of the eye fluke Diplostomum sp. and none to very light infections of the other parasite species. LB charr had relatively high prevalence and parasite burden of the intestinal fluke C. farionis , whereas infections of the remaining parasite species were light to moderate. PL and PI charr had high prevalences and worm burdens of Diphyllobothrium spp. and P. longicollis . PL charr differed from PI charr in higher worm burden off P. longicollis and lighter burden of £. salvelini . Prevalences of P. oncorhynchi were high in PL and PI charr. Association of parasite intensities and age and length offish were investigated. The different infection patterns among the morphs agree well with their partitioning in food and habitat utilization, and confirm that there is a high degree of ecological segregation between the morphs. The results demonstrate the importance of ecological factors influencing transmission efficiency of parasites to the fish host.