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Title: 
Record of a gregarine (Apicomplexa : Neogregarinida) in the abdomen of the termite Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae)
Author(s): 
Institution: 
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
ISSN: 
0022-2011
Abstract: 
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.
Issue Date: 
1-Feb-2008
Citation: 
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. San Diego: Academic Press Inc. Elsevier B.V., v. 97, n. 2, p. 114-118, 2008.
Time Duration: 
114-118
Publisher: 
Academic Press Inc. Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: 
  • gregarine cyst
  • termite
  • Isoptera
  • Rhinotermitidae
  • Mattesia
  • Neogregarinida
Source: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2007.08.002
URI: 
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Type: 
outro
Source:
http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/19793
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