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KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY
Volume 59, Issue 4, Pages 355-362Publisher
KOREAN SOC PARASITOLOGY, SEOUL NATL UNIV COLL MEDI
DOI: 10.3347/kjp.2021.59.4.355
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Gastrothylacidae; Fischoederius; morphology; mitochondrial genome
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- Thailand Research Fund through a Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. scholarship [PHD/0061/2556]
- Thammasat University Research Unit in Parasitic Diseases
- BioProject [PRJNA723375]
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The rumen fluke Fischoederius elongatus may actually consist of genetically distinct species rather than a single species. This study describes the morphology and full mitochondrial genome sequence of one of these species, which may have arisen from unique recombination events between genes.
A rumen fluke Fischoederius elongatus is assigned to the type species of genus Fischoederius, family Gastrothylacidae. However, the mitochondrial sequences recently published are thought to be of inconsistent species, suggesting that several morphologically similar but genetically distinct species might be classified as Fischoederius elongatus. Thus, mentions of F. elongatus from South, Southeast, and East Asia might unintentionally refer to different species. The present work describes morphology and a full mitochondrial genome sequence of one of these species. The fluke specimens were collected from 2 infected cattle in Thailand. An interesting finding was the presence of a second tRNA-Asp gene next to a partial ND1 gene. It is suggested that these duplicated sequences are the remnants of non-reciprocal recombination events caused by inverted repeats located between ND2 and ND1 mitochondrial genes.
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