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- Title:
- Record of a gregarine (Apicomplexa : Neogregarinida) in the abdomen of the termite Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- 0022-2011
- Coptotermes gestroi is an exotic species of termite that is a pest of great economical importance in Brazil. This paper relates the occurrence of a coelomic gregarine (Apicomplexa: Neogregarinida) in the abdomen of the foraging workers recently collected from field colonies of this termite. The termite hosts presented large, white abdomens because they carried 1 up to 3 cysts of gregarines filled with numerous lemon-shaped spores. Earlier developmental stages of this gregarine were not observed in the scanning microscope preparations nor in the histological slides of the infected termites. However, the lemon-shaped spores suggest a parasite gregarine of Mattesia genus, family Lipotrophidae. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- 1-Feb-2008
- Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. San Diego: Academic Press Inc. Elsevier B.V., v. 97, n. 2, p. 114-118, 2008.
- 114-118
- Academic Press Inc. Elsevier B.V.
- gregarine cyst
- termite
- Isoptera
- Rhinotermitidae
- Mattesia
- Neogregarinida
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2007.08.002
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- http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/19793
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