Diplostomum pseudospathaceum

Diplostomum pseudospathaceum is a species of trematode in the family Diplostomidae.

Diplostomum pseudospathaceum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Order:
Diplostomida
Family:
Diplostomidae
Genus:
Diplostomum
Species:
D. pseudospathaceum
Binomial name
Diplostomum pseudospathaceum
Niewiadomska, 1984[1]

Life cycle

It is a type of flukes infecting the eyes of some species of fish, altering their movement patterns to suit its needs at different stages of development.[2] The parasite infects snails and birds, sexually reproducing in the latter (its primary host) and asexually in the former (its first intermediate host), as well as many species of fish (its second intermediate host).[3] When infecting a fish, it quickly moves into the fish's eye lenses, as they lack blood circulation, so the parasite is protected there from the host's immune system.[3] This latter trait is probably responsible for the parasite's broad range of fish host species.[4] Having infected the fish, the course of infection can be modulated by co-infection with Flavobacterium columnare.[5]

Hosts

Hosts of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum include:

References
  1. Niewiadomska, K. (1984). "Present status of Diplostomum spathaceum (Rudolphi, 1819) and differentiation of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum nom. nov. (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae)". Systematic Parasitology 6(2): 81-86. doi:10.1007/bf02185515.
  2. "Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour". New Scientist. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  3. Chappell, L. H.; Hardie, L. J.; Secombes, C. J. (1994). "Diplostomiasis: The disease and host‐parasite interactions In Pike". Parasitic Diseases of Fish: 59–86.
  4. Scharsack, Jörn P.; Franke, Frederik; Erin, Noémi I.; Kuske, Andra; Büscher, Janine; Stolz, Hendrik; Samonte, Irene E.; Kurtz, Joachim; Kalbe, Martin (August 2016). "Effects of environmental variation on host-parasite interaction in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)". Zoology (Jena, Germany). 119 (4): 375–383. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.05.008. ISSN 1873-2720. PMID 27289265.
  5. Louhi, Katja-Riikka; Sundberg, Lotta-Riina; Jokela, Jukka; Karvonen, Anssi (2015-12-22). "Interactions among bacterial strains and fluke genotypes shape virulence of co-infection". Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 282 (1821): 20152097. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2097. ISSN 1471-2954. PMC 4707758. PMID 26674949.
  6. Soldanova M., Selbach C., Sures B., Kostadinova A. & Perez-del-Olmo A. (2010). "Larval trematode communities in Radix auricularia and Lymnaea stagnalis in a reservoir system of the Ruhr River". Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3: 56. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-56.
  7. Georgieva, S., Soldánová, M., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dangel, D. R., Sitko, J., Sures, B., & Kostadinova, A. (2013). Molecular prospecting for European Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) reveals cryptic diversity. International Journal for Parasitology, 43(1): 57-72. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.10.019
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