Molecular identification of Taenia spp. in wolves (Canis lupus), brown bears (Ursus arctos) and cervids from North Europe and Alaska
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- 作者：Antti Lavikainen<sup>asup><sup> ; sup><sup>antti.lavikainen@helsinki.fi"" rel=""nofollowsup> ; Sauli Laaksonen<sup>bsup> ; Kimberlee Beckmen<sup>csup> ; Antti Oksanen<sup>dsup> ; Marja Isomursu<sup>dsup> ; Seppo Meri<sup>asup><sup> ; sup><sup>esup>
- 关键词：Ursus arctos ; Alces ; Canis lupus ; Rangifer ; Taenia ; mtDNA
- 刊名：Parasitology International
- 出版年：2011
- 出版时间：September 2011
- 年：2011
- 卷：60
- 期：3
- 页码：289-295
- 全文大小：467 K
文摘
Taenia tapeworms of Finnish and Swedish wolves (Canis lupus) and Finnish brown bears (Ursus arctos), and muscle cysticerci of Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus), Alaskan Grant's caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) and Alaskan moose (Alces americanus) were identified on the basis of the nucleotide sequence of a 396 bp region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene. Two species were found from wolves: Taenia hydatigena and Taenia krabbei. The cysticerci of reindeer, caribou and one moose also represented T. krabbei. Most of the cysticercal specimens from Alaskan moose, however, belonged to an unknown T. krabbei-like species, which had been reported previously from Eurasian elks (Alces alces) from Finland. Strobilate stages from two bears belonged to this species as well. The present results suggest that this novel Taenia sp. has a Holarctic distribution and uses Alces spp. as intermediate and ursids as final hosts.