Description and phylogeny of a new microsporidium from the elm leaf beetle, Xanthogaleruca luteola Muller, 1766 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Bekircan C., BÜLBÜL U., GÜLER H. İ., BECNEL J. J.

PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH, cilt.116, sa.2, ss.773-780, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 116 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s00436-016-5349-y
  • Dergi Adı: PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.773-780
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Coleoptera, Elm, Microsporidia, Pathogen, Ultrastructure, MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION, N-SP, PLEISTOPHORIDAE, PARASITE, PATHOGEN
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study describes a new genus and species of microsporidia which is a pathogen of the elm leaf beetle, Xanthogaleruca luteola Muller, 1776 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The beetles were collected from Istanbul in Turkey. All developmental stages are uninucleate and in direct contact with the host cell cytoplasm. Giemsa-stained mature spores are oval in shape and measured 3.40 +/- 0.37 mu m in length and 1.63 +/- 0.20 mu m in width. These uninucleate spores have an isofilar polar filament with 11 turns. The spore wall was trilaminar (75 to 115 nm) with a rugose, electron-dense exospore (34 to 45 nm) and a thickened, electron-lucent endospore (65 to 80 nm) overlaying the plasmalemma. Morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular features indicate that the described microsporidium is dissimilar to all known microsporidian taxa and confirm that it has different taxonomic characters than other microsporidia infecting X. luteola and is named here as Rugispora istanbulensis n. gen., n. sp.