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Named after the record in marsh deer muscles (
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8AFFC6973B5404FDB4A9FF" bold="true" box="[100,597,1913,1930]" pageId="3" pageNumber="42">Fig. 3. Neighbor-Joining consensus phylogenetic tree</emphasis>
. Phylogenetic tree based on an alignment of 41
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18S rRNA sequences performed with GENEIOUS software (Version R9), using a Tamura-Nei genetic distance model. The three sequences from marsh deer obtained in the present study are in bold. Branch consensus support is expressed as % from 1000 bootstraps. Sequence M97703 from
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8DFFC1973B575BFDAAAA41" bold="true" box="[100,587,1062,1079]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Fig. 4. Neighbor-Joining consensus phylogenetic tree</emphasis>
. Phylogenetic tree based on an alignment of 40
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sequences performed with GENEIOUS software (Version R9), using a Tamura-Nei genetic distance model and no outgroup. The three sequences from marsh deer (one from each animal) are in bold. Branch consensus support is expressed as % from 1000 bootstraps. Sequence JX473257 from
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Intermediate hosts: Marsh deer (
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).
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Distribution:
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and probably South America following distribution of intermediate host.
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Definitive host: based on the phylogenetic results and predator-prey geographical distribution, highly probable to be wild native canids (i.e.
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8DFFC1973B562BFEDBAB1F" bold="true" box="[100,314,1366,1385]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chrysocyon brachyurus</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8DFFC19614562BFDC0AB1C" bold="true" box="[331,545,1366,1386]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Lycalopex gymnocercus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8DFFC1956D562BFD2AAB1F" bold="true" box="[562,715,1366,1385]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Cerdocyon thous</emphasis>
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Molecular characteristics: sequences registered in GenBank from
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gene fragment (Accession numbers ON911503-ON911505) and cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (COI) fragment (Accession numbers ON932790-ON932794).
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8DFFC1973B5567FF11A85B" bold="true" box="[100,240,1562,1581]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">4. Discussion</emphasis>
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The current study presents a morphological and molecular characterization of an undescribed
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. A moderate frequency was observed by optical microscopy, observing sarcocysts in muscles from 6/14 animals. Some of the samples were in advanced autolysis. Therefore, the true prevalence of
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in marsh deer may be even higher than reported here due to cyst disruption prior to or during homogenization (More´et al., 2011, 2013).
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infected animals were observed in both sampled regions, being 5/
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Ibera´and 1/
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, a frequency of
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infection of 3/31 was observed in musculoskeletal system of marsh deer, also by optical microscopy (Navas-Suarez´et al., 2018). This lower proportion observed in
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could be due to a lower interspecific contact or deer predation. However, to confirm such a hypothesis, more representative samplings are required.
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All the sarcocysts observed were microscopic and thin-walled. At optical microscopy, no evident protrusions were observed, similar to features from other
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detected in cervids in
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(
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). The cyst wall ultrastructure from four cysts obtained from two marsh deer from Ibera´Wetlands showing ribbon-like protrusions resembled other species in cervids muscles like
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,
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, b; Cerqueira-C´ezar et al., 2018; Delgado de Las Cuevas et al., 2019; Rudaityte-Luko ˙ˇsiene˙et al., 2021). A similar image was obtained previously from cysts in pudu muscles from
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(
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). Altogether, the morphological information suggested that marsh deer are frequently infected with a single species, similar to other
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affecting cervids worldwide and the
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identified in pudu muscles in
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The molecular results reinforce the hypothesis of a single species present in marsh deer from
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. However, sequence identities (especially the ones from the
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gene) were below 90% with other
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reported sequences. Other cervid species showed a greater diversity of
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s spp. in muscles (
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;
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;
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, b; Rudaityte-Luko ˙ˇsiene˙et al., 2020a; Rudaityte-Luko ˙ˇsiene˙et al., 2020b; Rudaityte-Luko ˙ˇsiene˙et al., 2021), possibly a restricted predator-prey relationship is occurring with the marsh deer in South America, resulting in a reduced species variety. On the other hand, from 12 individual cysts or cyst portions, only eight resulted positive by
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PCR, and from only three samples, a sequence shorter than expected was obtained. Some of the samples were in an advanced autolysis process, which may have resulted in DNA degradation. Regarding the
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fragment, a low level of amplification was also observed, and no consensus sequence was achieved. Similar difficulties in amplifying and sequencing the
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and
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fragments from
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from North American
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have been mentioned by Cerqueira-C´ezar et al. (2018). Probably, the priming regions from
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and the species detected in marsh deer are not conserved, as previously assumed from most
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(
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; More´et al., 2013). Additionally, an intraspecific sequence variation (both
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and
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) could also result in unintelligible sequences when the PCR products are sequenced directly. Despite the morphological similarity, the
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gene sequences obtained from
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in marsh deer showed a low homology (93.796.7%) with sequences from
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in red deer in
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(Gjerde et al., 2017b)
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from reindeer in
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(Dahlgren and Gjerde, 2007),
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in roe deer from
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and
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(Rudaityt´e- Lukoˇsiene ˙ et al., 2020b),
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC097B5514BFED6AC3F" box="[234,311,566,585]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="morae">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC097B5514BFED6AC3F" bold="true" box="[234,311,566,585]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. morae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in fallow deer in
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC09688514BFDD1AC3F" box="[471,560,566,585]" name="Lithuania" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Lithuania</collectingCountry>
(Rudaityt´e- Lukoˇsiene ˙ et al., 2020a);
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC097B1512FFEB1AC13" bold="true" box="[238,336,594,613]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
from pudu from
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC0954B512FFD90AC13" box="[532,625,594,613]" name="Argentina" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Argentina</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFC74B60FF8CFFC09520512FFF30ACF7" author="Chang Reissig, E. &amp; Helman, E." pageId="5" pageNumber="44" pagination="3915 - 3922" refId="ref5774" refString="Chang Reissig, E., Helman, E., Mor´e, G., 2020. Sarcocystis spp. infection in South American deer huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) and pudu (Pudu puda) from patagonian national Parks, Argentina. Parasitol. Res. 119, 3915 - 3922. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00436 - 020 - 06889 - 9." type="journal article" year="2020">Chang Reissig et al., 2020</bibRefCitation>
),
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC097BA5113FEA4ACF7" box="[229,325,622,641]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="taeniata">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC097BA5113FEA4ACF7" bold="true" box="[229,325,622,641]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. taeniata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in sika deer in
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC096845113FDD5ACF7" box="[475,564,622,641]" name="Lithuania" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Lithuania</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFC74B60FF8CFFC0951C5113FD15ACF7" author="Prakas, P. &amp; Butkauskas, D. &amp; Sruoga, A." box="[579,756,622,641]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" pagination="3021 - 3032" refId="ref7577" refString="Prakas, P., Butkauskas, D., Rudaityte ˙, E., Kutkiene ˙, L., Sruoga, A., Purait ¯ e ˙, I., 2016. Morphological and molecular characterization of Sarcocystis taeniata and Sarcocystis pilosa n. sp. from the sika deer (Cervus nippon) in Lithuania. Parasitol. Res. 115 (8), 3021 - 3032. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00436 - 016 - 5057 - 7." type="journal article" year="2016">Prakas et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
),
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0973B51F7FF12ACEA" authorityName="Gjerde" authorityYear="1984" box="[100,243,649,669]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="tarandivulpes">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B51F7FF12ACEA" bold="true" box="[100,243,649,669]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. tarandivulpes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from reindeer from
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC096EA51F7FE1BACEB" box="[437,506,650,669]" name="Iceland" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Iceland</collectingCountry>
(Dahlgren et al., 2007) and
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0973B51DBFF53ACCF" box="[100,178,678,697]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="wapiti">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B51DBFF53ACCF" bold="true" box="[100,178,678,697]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. wapiti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from elk (Cerqueira-C´ezar et al., 2018). The differences at this target suggested that the
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0963651BCFE13ACA3" box="[361,498,705,725]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0963651BCFE2AACA2" bold="true" box="[361,459,705,724]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
in marsh deer could be a different species. In addition, the sequences from the present study were phylogenetically positioned in the same branch with only a
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC095FD5184FCE3AD7A" authorityName="Gjerde" authorityYear="1984" baseAuthorityName="Yakimoff &amp; Sokoloff" baseAuthorityYear="1934" box="[674,770,761,780]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="grueneri">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095FD5184FCE3AD7A" bold="true" box="[674,770,761,780]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. grueneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sequence. Several other sequences from
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096845068FDA9AD5E" box="[475,584,789,808]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="cervicanis">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096845068FDA9AD5E" bold="true" box="[475,584,789,808]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. cervicanis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0950C5068FD74AD5E" box="[595,661,789,808]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="cruzi">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0950C5068FD74AD5E" bold="true" box="[595,661,789,808]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. cruzi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC095FF5068FD07AD5E" authorityName="Dahlgren &amp; Gjerde" authorityYear="2009" box="[672,742,789,808]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="hjorti">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095FF5068FD07AD5E" bold="true" box="[672,742,789,808]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. hjorti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC095AE5068FF46AD32" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="iberica">S. iberica</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC097EC504CFE24AD32" bold="true" box="[179,453,817,836]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC097EC504CFEEFAD32" box="[179,270,817,836]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="linearis">S. linearis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC09645504CFE8CAD32" box="[282,365,817,836]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="morae">S. morae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC09626504CFE23AD32" authorityName="Gjerde" authorityYear="1984" box="[377,450,817,836]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="rangi">S. rangi</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC09691504CFDB2AD33" box="[462,595,817,837]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC09691504CFDD1AD32" bold="true" box="[462,560,817,836]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
from huemul and pudu in
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC097EA5030FEF3AD16" box="[181,274,845,864]" name="Argentina" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Argentina</collectingCountry>
,
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096415030FE36AD16" bold="true" box="[286,471,845,864]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096415030FE9FAD16" box="[286,382,845,864]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="taeniata">S. taeniata</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096DA5030FE36AD16" authorityName="Moulé" authorityYear="1886" baseAuthorityName="Railliet" baseAuthorityYear="1886" box="[389,471,845,864]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="tenella">S. tenella</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096BB5030FDAEAD16" box="[484,591,845,864]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="venatoria">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096BB5030FDAEAD16" bold="true" box="[484,591,845,864]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. venatoria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095205030FD2CAD16" bold="true" box="[639,717,845,864]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. wapiti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were distant related, however, according to the positioning it is possible that all these species shared a common ancestor. Since most of these species use canids as definitive hosts, the
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096FB50DCFDC6ADC2" box="[420,551,929,948]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096FB50DCFDE7ADC2" bold="true" box="[420,518,929,948]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
in marsh deer may use canids too.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BE93691FF8CFFC097DB50A4FDFFAB68" blockId="5.[100,771,148,1980]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
Aiming further characterization, different PCR (using two reverse primers) to obtain
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096425089FEA1AA71" bold="true" box="[285,320,1012,1031]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">COI</emphasis>
gene fragments were performed as previously reported for species using cervids as intermediate hosts (
<bibRefCitation id="EFC74B60FF8CFFC095DE576DFD1DAA52" author="Gjerde, B." box="[641,764,1040,1060]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" pagination="579 - 591" refId="ref6490" refString="Gjerde, B., 2013. Phylogenetic relationships among Sarcocystis species in cervids, cattle and sheep inferred from the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene. Int. J. Parasitol. 43 (7), 579 - 591. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ijpara. 2013.02.004." type="journal article" year="2013">Gjerde, 2013</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFC74B60FF8CFFC0973B5751FEC3AA49" author="Gjerde, B. &amp; Giacomelli, S. &amp; Bianchi, A. &amp; Bertoletti, I. &amp; Mondani, H. &amp; Gibelli, L. R." box="[100,290,1068,1088]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" pagination="1317 - 1338" refId="ref6669" refString="Gjerde, B., Giacomelli, S., Bianchi, A., Bertoletti, I., Mondani, H., Gibelli, L. R., 2017 a. Morphological and molecular characterization of four Sarcocystis spp., including Sarcocystis linearis n. sp., from roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in Italy. Parasitol. Res. 116 (4), 1317 - 1338. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00436 - 017 - 5410 - 5." type="journal article" year="2017">Gjerde et al., 2017a</bibRefCitation>
). Both combinations resulted in proper amplicons for sequencing, and good quality sequences were obtained from all three cysts previously analyzed by
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096295719FE30AA01" bold="true" box="[374,465,1124,1143]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">18S rRNA</emphasis>
. These results reinforce the idea of priming failure or intraspecific sequence variation of
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0952457FDFD39AAE5" bold="true" box="[635,728,1152,1171]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">18S rRNA</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B57E1FF6FAAD9" bold="true" box="[100,142,1180,1199]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">ITS1</emphasis>
fragments. All the
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0961057E1FE93AAD9" bold="true" box="[335,370,1180,1199]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">COI</emphasis>
sequences obtained in the present study showed a high homology among them and a low homology with others reported in the GenBank, being up to 89.7% with several
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC095FF57AEFCE3AA90" authorityName="Gjerde" authorityYear="1984" baseAuthorityName="Yakimoff &amp; Sokoloff" baseAuthorityYear="1934" box="[672,770,1235,1254]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="grueneri">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095FF57AEFCE3AA90" bold="true" box="[672,770,1235,1254]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. grueneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sequences, with the highest score with the sequence KC209624 from
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0973B5676FEE5AB68" baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" box="[100,260,1291,1310]" class="Mammalia" family="Cervidae" genus="Rangifer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Artiodactyla" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tarandus">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B5676FEE5AB68" bold="true" box="[100,260,1291,1310]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Rangifer tarandus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC096625671FE66AB69" box="[317,391,1292,1311]" name="Norway" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Norway</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFC74B60FF8CFFC096C95676FDF1AB68" author="Gjerde, B." box="[406,528,1291,1310]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" pagination="579 - 591" refId="ref6490" refString="Gjerde, B., 2013. Phylogenetic relationships among Sarcocystis species in cervids, cattle and sheep inferred from the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene. Int. J. Parasitol. 43 (7), 579 - 591. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ijpara. 2013.02.004." type="journal article" year="2013">Gjerde, 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BE93691FF8CFFC097DB565AFD0DA963" blockId="5.[100,771,148,1980]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">
As far as we know, there are no reports of
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC09560565AFD83AB4C" bold="true" box="[575,610,1319,1338]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">COI</emphasis>
sequences from
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0973B563EFF53AB20" box="[100,178,1347,1366]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="wapiti">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B563EFF53AB20" bold="true" box="[100,178,1347,1366]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. wapiti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Cerqueira-C´ezar et al., 2018), so proper comparisons are not possible. Despite morphological similarities, the high sequence divergence at
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC097E65606FEF4ABF8" bold="true" box="[185,277,1403,1422]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">18S rRNA</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0961B5606FE86ABF8" bold="true" box="[324,359,1403,1422]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">COI</emphasis>
allowed the assumption that
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC095205606FCE2ABF8" box="[639,771,1403,1422]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095205606FD00ABF8" bold="true" box="[639,737,1403,1422]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
from marsh deer is a different species from
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096AD56EAFDDFABDC" box="[498,574,1431,1450]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="wapiti">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096AD56EAFDDFABDC" bold="true" box="[498,574,1431,1450]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. wapiti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and other
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC095FF56EAFF6AABB0" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095FF56EAFCE3ABDC" bold="true" box="[672,770,1431,1450]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
spp.
</taxonomicName>
producing cysts in cervids muscles. Thus, we propose the name
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC0973B56B2FEC6AB97" authorityName="Berra &amp; Gast &amp; Mor &amp; e &amp; Helman &amp; Argibay &amp; Orozco" authorityYear="2023" box="[100,295,1486,1506]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="blastoceris" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B56B2FEC6AB97" bold="true" box="[100,295,1486,1506]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis blastoceris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21157F8FF8CFFC0967456B2FEBCAB94" box="[299,349,1487,1506]" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
for the species producing sarcocysts in marsh deer. In the phylogenetic tree, all
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096F85697FDA4AB8B" authority="COI" authorityName="COI" box="[423,581,1514,1533]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="blastoceris">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096F85697FDA4AB8B" bold="true" box="[423,581,1514,1533]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. blastoceris COI</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sequences are positioned along with sequences from
<taxonomicName id="4C564D12FF8CFFC096E2557BFDC1A86F" authorityName="Gjerde" authorityYear="1984" baseAuthorityName="Yakimoff &amp; Sokoloff" baseAuthorityYear="1934" box="[445,544,1542,1561]" class="Microsporea" family="Amblyosporidae" genus="Sarcocystis" kingdom="Protozoa" order="Meiodihaplophasida" pageId="5" pageNumber="44" phylum="Microsporidia" rank="species" species="grueneri">
<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC096E2557BFDC1A86F" bold="true" box="[445,544,1542,1561]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. grueneri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="F3417601FF8CFFC0953D557AFD4DA86C" box="[610,684,1543,1562]" name="Norway" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Norway</collectingCountry>
(
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) and with a sister clade containing sequences from
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095D3555FFD1DA843" bold="true" box="[652,764,1570,1589]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. cervicanis</emphasis>
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,
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,
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,
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0961D5543FE45A827" bold="true" box="[322,420,1598,1617]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Sarcocystis</emphasis>
sp.
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from pudu in
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and
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0973B5527FF23A81B" bold="true" box="[100,194,1626,1645]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. taeniata</emphasis>
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. Several of these species are known to use canids as definitive hosts and suggest a potential common ancestor for these species (
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; Tuska-Szalay et al., 2021). Additionally, these native cervids are part of an alimentary chain being consumed (as prey or carrion) by domestic dogs (
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0964F55B7FE7BA8AA" bold="true" box="[272,410,1737,1757]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Canis familiaris</emphasis>
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) and different native canid species like maned wolf (
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC097B45598FE20A88E" bold="true" box="[235,449,1765,1784]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Chrysocyon brachyurus</emphasis>
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), pampas fox (
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC095035598FF7AA963" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Lycalopex gymnocercus</emphasis>
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) and crab-eating fox (
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC09631547CFDE3A962" bold="true" box="[366,514,1793,1812]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">Cerdocyon thous</emphasis>
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) (
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).
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In summary, the sarcocyst morphology, the positioning on the phylogenetic trees, and that marsh deer are frequently predated by dogs and foxes, allowed the assumption that
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0968F5428FDA0A91E" bold="true" box="[464,577,1877,1896]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. blastoceris</emphasis>
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could have canids as definitive hosts.
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Further studies should be conducted to properly identify naturally infected definitive hosts for
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<emphasis id="B922EA83FF8CFFC0963554D4FE3CA9CA" bold="true" box="[362,477,1961,1980]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="44">S. blastoceris</emphasis>
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and its potential role on marsh deer health status.
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