Molecular evidence for the occurrence of Contracaecum rudolphii A (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis (Linnaeus) (Aves: Phalacrocoracidae) from Sardinia (western Mediterranean Sea)

Molecular identification of Hysterothylacium aduncum specimens isolated from commercially important fish species of Eastern Mediterranean Sea using mtDNA cox1 and ITS rDNA gene sequences

“…Previous studies based on nucleotide sequences of ITS rDNA gene clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of this genetic marker in molecular identification of ascaridoid species [1,19,26,[39][40][41][42][43][44]. Nucleotide sequences of L4 stage larvae of H. aduncum specimens isolated from three commercially important fish species caught off the Eastern Mediterranean cost are also shown to be effective in molecular identification at species level, using both ITS rDNA and mtDNA cox1 regions.…”

Anisakid Nematode (Ascaridoidea) Life Cycles and Distribution: Increasing Zoonotic Potential in the Time of Climate Change?

“…of the genera Larus, Pelecanus, Phalacrocorax) have been identified as final hosts in the Contracaecum life cycle (e.g. Torres et al 1983;Farjallah et al 2008;Mattiucci and Nascetti 2008;Shamshi et al 2009a; Fig. 11.4).…”

Molecular characterization of Hysterothylacium aduncum (Nematoda: Raphidascaridae) from different fish caught off the Tunisian coast based on nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences

“…The existence of these sibling species was later confirmed using genetic markers in the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of ribosomal DNA (Zhu et al 2002). Moreover, different studies have demonstrated that the ITS gene is a valuable genetic marker for the accurate identification of sibling species and morphospecies within Contracaecum rudolphii complex, identified as C. rudolphii A, C. rudolphii B and C. rudolphii C Li et al 2005;D'Amelio et al 2007;Farjallah et al 2008b).…”