Morphological and molecular characterization of Eimeria paludosa coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa:Eimeriidae) in a dusky moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa, Gould, 1846) in Australia

Eimeria spp. and Tyzzeria perniciosa Allen, 1936 (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from a Pacific black duck, Anas superciliosa Gmelin (Aves: Anseriformes), in western Australia

“…E imeria anatis also shared a genetic similarity of 94.6% with both Eimeria gruis Yakimoff & Matschoulsky, 1935 (GenBank: AB544336) and Eimeria reichenowi Yakimoff & Matschoulsky, 1935 (GenBank: AB544314), both identified from Grus monacha Temminck in Japan and reported by the same group ( Honma et al., 2011 ). In addition, E. anatis shared 93.0% similarity with Eimeria paludosa (Leger & Hesse, 1922) (GenBank: KJ767187) from Gallinula tenebrosa Gould in Western Australia ( Yang et al., 2014 ). As shown in Fig.…”

First molecular detection of Eimeria spp. in eared doves (Zenaida auriculata) from Brazil

“…Most of the molecular characterization of Eimeria oocysts were done in chickens and turkeys (Hafeez et al, 2015;Ogedengbe et al, 2011;Rathinam et al, 2015)Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Speciesspecific PCR primers targeting the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (mtCOI, and despite over than 1700 species have been described in different hosts (Yang et al, 2014), there is still a lack of information about Eimeria in other birds, including Columbiformes.…”

“…Over the years, the methodologies to diagnose Eimeria in birds have been developed, not only in the traditional morphologic characterization, but also in molecular biology (Carvalho et al, 2011). Furthermore, the identification of Eimeria species can be based on morphology, geographic distribution, host species and pathology (Yang, Brice, Elloit, Lee, & Ryan, 2014). In this way, molecular tools are used for diagnostics and to describe the genetic variability of Eimeria oocysts (Carvalho et al, 2011) The sequences of the subunit I of the cytochrome c oxidase gene (COI) have been used to identify Eimeria and Isospora species in birds; however, there are still few studies of coccidia in birds worldwide (Berto et al, 2014;Hafeez et al, 2015;Ogedengbe, Hanner, & Barta, 2011;Rathinam, Gadde, & Chapman, 2015;Yang, Brice, & Ryan, 2016b).…”

Eimeria proteins: order amidst disorder

“…Eimeria is the largest genus in the phylum Apicomplexa with > 1800 described species [ 1 , 2 ] and one of the most speciose eukaryotic taxa [ 3 , 4 ]. Eimerians share some similarities with coccidian genera such as Cyclospora , Cystisospora, Sarcocystis , Toxoplasma, Neospora , Epieimeria , Karyolysus and Hammondia but are less related to Cryptosporidium and remotely to Plasmodium, Theileria and Babesia [ 5 , 6 ].…”