Bassini-Silva Ricardo, Calchi Ana Cláudia, Castro-Santiago Ana Carolina, Marocco João Carlos, Dorigoni Letícia, de Quadros Rosiléia Marinho, André Marcos Rogério, Barros-Battesti Darci Moraes, Dowling Ashley P G, Labruna Marcelo Bahia, Jacinavicius Fernando de Castro
Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Vector-Borne Bioagents Laboratory (VBBL), Departamento de Patologia, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias-UNESP, Reprodução e Saúde Única, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil.
Vet Res Commun. 2024 Dec 30;49(1):60. doi: 10.1007/s11259-024-10632-5.
Wolbachia is an intracellular endosymbiont bacterium found in nematodes and arthopods. Regarding mites, the Wolbachia supergroup U has been described based on strains found in the genus Spinturnix. In this study, ten specimens of Periglischrus iheringi (Mesostigmata: Spinturnicidae), collected from Artibeus obscurus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Santa Catarina State, were found to be infected with Wolbachia. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16 S rRNA gene revealed that the detected Wolbachia strain belongs to Supergroup F, which has also been detected in other ectoparasitic arthropods, such as Columbicola columbae (slender pigeon lice) and Cimex lectularius (bed bug). This study presents the first molecular detection of Wolbachia in P. iheringi.
沃尔巴克氏体是一种在线虫和节肢动物中发现的细胞内共生细菌。关于螨类，基于在蝠螨属中发现的菌株描述了沃尔巴克氏体超群U。在本研究中，从圣卡塔琳娜州的暗色果蝠（翼手目：叶口蝠科）采集的10只伊氏围翼螨（中气门目：蝠螨科）标本被发现感染了沃尔巴克氏体。基于16S rRNA基因的系统发育分析表明，检测到的沃尔巴克氏体菌株属于超群F，在其他外寄生节肢动物中也检测到了该超群，如鸽长圆虱和温带臭虫。本研究首次对伊氏围翼螨中的沃尔巴克氏体进行了分子检测。
