Biology
Life cycle completion of parasite Ascogregarina taiwanensis (Apicomplexa: Lecudinidae) in non-native host Ochlerotatus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Ascogregarina taiwanensis (Lien and Levine), a protist gut parasite of Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is not known to complete its life cycle within the potential competitor species, Ochlerotatus japonicus (Theobald). In a laboratory cross infection study we demonstrated that A. taiwanensis completed its life cycle within Oc. japonicus and remained infectious. We also sampled cohabitating mosquito larvae in Mercer County, NJ, and based on ribosomal DNA sequence data, we determined that Oc. japonicus cohabitating with Ae. albopictus can become infected with A. taiwanensis. © 2012 Entomological Society of America.
Publication Title
Journal of Medical Entomology
Publication Date
9-2012
Volume
49
Issue
5
First Page
1109
Last Page
1117
ISSN
0022-2585
DOI
10.1603/ME12018
Keywords
Ascogregarina taiwanensis, mosquito, Ochlerotatus japonicus, parasite
Repository Citation
Erthal, J. A.; Soghigian, J. S.; and Livdahl, T., "Life cycle completion of parasite Ascogregarina taiwanensis (Apicomplexa: Lecudinidae) in non-native host Ochlerotatus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae)" (2012). Biology. 407.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_biology/407
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