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Título: Dispersion of adeleid oocysts by vertebrates in Gran Canaria, Spain: Report and literature review
Autores/as: Santana Hernández, Kevin Manuel 
Priestnall, Simon L.
Modrý, David
Rodríguez Ponce, Eligia 
Clasificación UNESCO: 310907 Patología
241303 Ecología de los insectos
240112 Parasitología animal
Palabras clave: Ecology
Insect Pathology
Invasive Species
Parasitology
Protozoa
Fecha de publicación: 2021
Proyectos: POSTLIFE+Lampropeltis para el control de la culebra real de California en Gran Canaria (LIFE!=/NAT/ES/656)
Publicación seriada: Parasitology 
Resumen: Within the family Adeleidae, Adelina spp. belong to a group of arthropod pathogens. These parasites have been reported to have a wide geographic distribution, however, there are no reports of these protists in the Canary Islands, Spain. One of the peculiarities of the life cycle of Adelina spp. is the participation of a predator, because fecundation and sporulation occur inside the body cavity, and so necessitate destruction of the definitive host. The involvement therefore of a „dispersion host‟, which eats the definitive host and spreads the oocysts through its faeces, is critical for the maintenance of certain Adelina spp. On the island of Gran Canaria, adeleid oocysts have been found in stool samples from four animals, three California kingsnakes (Lampropeltis californiae), and one feral cat. These animals were part of a larger coprological study of vertebrate parasites (117 snakes, 298 cats), where pseudoparasitic elements were also recorded. L. californiae and feral cats are invasive species which are widespread across the island and this novel finding of Adelina spp. oocysts in their faeces suggests that they could also serve as potential sentinel species for arthropod parasites.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/112137
ISSN: 0031-1820
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182021001244
Fuente: Parasitology [ISSN 0031-1820], v. 148(13), p. 1588 - 1594
Colección:Artículos
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