RRC ID 19686
著者 Mita K, Kawai N, Rueckert S, Sasakura Y.
タイトル Large-scale infection of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis by the gregarine Lankesteria ascidiae in an inland culture system.
ジャーナル Dis Aquat Organ
Abstract An important way to keep transgenic and mutant lines of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, a model system for e.g. genetic functions, in laboratories is via culturing systems. Here we report a disease of C. intestinalis observed in an inland culturing system. The disease, called 'long feces syndrome,' is expressed in affected animals by the following characteristic symptoms of the digestive system: (1) excretion of long and thin feces, (2) pale color of the stomach, and (3) congestion of the digestive tube by digested material. Severely diseased animals usually die within a week after the first symptoms occur, implying a high risk of this disease for ascidian culturing systems. The digestive tubes of the diseased animals are occupied by the gregarine apicomplexan parasite Lankesteria ascidiae, suggesting that large-scale infection by this parasite is the cause of long feces syndrome.
巻・号 101(3)
ページ 185-95
公開日 2012-11-19
DOI 10.3354/dao02534
PMID 23324415
MeSH Animals Apicomplexa / genetics Apicomplexa / physiology* Apicomplexa / ultrastructure Aquaculture Ciona intestinalis / parasitology* Host-Parasite Interactions Phylogeny
IF 1.368
引用数 7
WOS 分野 VETERINARY SCIENCES FISHERIES
リソース情報
カタユウレイボヤ・(ニッポンウミシダ) Wild C. int