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DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS
Volume 129, Issue 2, Pages 117-122Publisher
INTER-RESEARCH
DOI: 10.3354/dao03236
Keywords
Gills; Morphology; Isopod; Parasite; Freshwater shrimp; Palaemonidae; Amazon River; Brazil
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- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil) [303013/2015-0, 301886/2016-4]
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The present study describes, for the first time, histopathological alterations in the gills of Macrobrachium amazonicum caused by infestation of Probopyrus bithynis (Isopoda: Bopyridae). In every case (100%), the infestation by P. bithynis was by a single pair of parasites (male and female) and occurred in the right or left side of the branchial chamber; the gill structures were visibly compressed due to the presence of parasites. The gills of M. amazonicum parasitized by P. bithynis exhibited a chronic inflammatory response, with the presence of edema, greater quantities of hemocytes, necrosis, epithelial cell hyperplasia, rupture of the pillar cells at the ends of the gill lamellae, desquamation of the cuticle, lamellar fusion and rupture of the lamellar epithelium. Tissue lesions were found in the histological sections of the gills of the parasitized M. amazonicum. Structural alterations in the branchial chamber of the hosts caused by the presence of P. bithynis can lead to physiological changes that can impair host respiratory performance. Finally, histopathological alterations in the branchial chamber of hosts suggest that P. bithynis feed directly on the gill tissues of this shrimp.
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