Glowska-Patyniak Eliza, Kaszewska-Gilas Katarzyna, Laniecka Izabella, Olechnowicz Julia, Ostrowska Kamila, Dmuchowska Wiktoria, Schmidt Brian K, Hubert Jan, Trzebny Artur
Department of Animal Morphology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
Animals (Basel). 2024 Dec 28;15(1):52. doi: 10.3390/ani15010052.
is a common intracellular bacterial genus that infects numerous arthropods and filarial nematodes. In arthropods, it typically acts as a reproductive parasite, leading to various phenotypic effects such as cytoplasmic incompatibility, parthenogenesis, feminization, or male-killing. Quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) are a group of bird parasites that have recently attracted increasing interest due to the detection of unique phylogenetic lineages of endosymbiotic bacteria and potentially pathogenic taxa. Our study used an unbiased 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing approach to examine several populations of Namibian quill mites for the presence of bacteria that could affect their biology. We detected in two mite populations collected from two species of larks. However, we did not find any other endosymbiotic bacteria or any that could be of epidemiological importance. Since the mite taxa we tested were previously unknown to science, we conducted comprehensive morphological and molecular systematic analyses on them. Our research revealed two new quill mite species of the genus Kethley, 1970 which parasitize three sub-Saharan alaudids, i.e., sp. n. from the dune lark (Strickland, HE) and sp. n. from the Karoo long-billed lark (Smith) and spike-heeled lark (de Lafresnaye, NFAA). In addition, we provided the African reed warbler (Vieillot, LJP) as a new host for Skoracki, 1999. Our study expands the knowledge on parasite diversity and provides new insights into infection among quill mites in Africa.
是一种常见的细胞内细菌属，可感染众多节肢动物和丝虫线虫。在节肢动物中，它通常作为生殖寄生虫，导致各种表型效应，如细胞质不相容、孤雌生殖、雌性化或雄性致死。羽螨（蜱螨目：管巢螨科）是一类鸟类寄生虫，由于检测到内共生细菌的独特系统发育谱系和潜在的致病类群，最近引起了越来越多的关注。我们的研究采用无偏差的16S rRNA基因扩增子测序方法，检查纳米比亚羽螨的几个种群中是否存在可能影响其生物学特性的细菌。我们在从两种云雀采集的两个螨种群中检测到了 。然而，我们没有发现任何其他内共生细菌或任何具有流行病学重要性的细菌。由于我们测试的螨类群以前在科学上是未知的，我们对它们进行了全面的形态学和分子系统分析。我们的研究揭示了1970年克思利属的两个新羽螨物种，它们寄生于三种撒哈拉以南的百灵科鸟类，即来自沙丘云雀（斯特里克兰，HE）的 新种和来自卡鲁长嘴云雀（史密斯）和尖跟云雀（德·拉弗雷纳耶，NFAA）的 新种。此外，我们提供了非洲苇莺（维约洛，LJP）作为1999年斯科拉茨基属的新宿主。我们的研究扩展了对寄生虫多样性的认识，并为非洲羽螨中的 感染提供了新的见解。
