Discovery of the malacopathogenic nematode Pellioditis akhaldaba from the Caucasus in alien slugs in the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Discovery of the malacopathogenic nematode Pellioditis akhaldaba from the Caucasus in alien slugs in the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow

Published:2024-07-03 Issue:7 Volume:26 Page:803-815
ISSN:1388-5545
Container-title:Nematology
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Short-container-title:Nematol.

Author:

Ivanova Elena S.¹^ORCID,Spiridonov Sergei E.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centre of Parasitology, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Prospect 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia

Abstract

Summary A member of the genus Pellioditis Dougherty, 1953 (syn. Phasmarhabditis Andrássy, 1976) was detected in three introduced gastropod species in Moscow for the first time. Both the nematode and its gastropod hosts were found to have originated from the Caucasus region. No native gastropod species as well as the alien invasive slug Arion vulgaris were infected by P. akhaldaba. The Moscow strain of P. akhaldaba is very close to P. akhaldaba from Georgia in the ITS rDNA (7 bp difference) but they differ significantly in the sequences of COI mtDNA (50 bp difference). However, phylogenetic analysis of both loci showed that these two strains were the closest relative to all other species and strains of the genus Pellioditis studied.

Publisher

Brill

Link

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