Molecular analyses reveal high species diversity of trematodes in a sub-Arctic lake

• Published in: International Journal for Parasitology
• Main Authors: Soldánová, M. (Miroslava), Georgieva, S. (Simona), Roháčová, J. (Jana), Knudsen, R., Kuhn, J. A., Henriksen, E. H., Siwertsson, A., Shaw, J. C., Kuris, A. M., Amundsen, P.-A., Scholz, T. (Tomáš), Lafferty, K. D., Kostadinova, A. (Aneta)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Trematode diversity; intermediate hosts; phylogeny; mitochondrial DNA; nuclear DNA; Lake Takvatn; Norway; Sub-Arctic; Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.12.008; http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0275244

To identify trematode diversity and life-cycles in the sub-Arctic Lake Takvatn, Norway, we characterised 120 trematode isolates from mollusc first intermediate hosts, metacercariae from second intermediate host fishes and invertebrates, and adults from fish and invertebrate definitive hosts, using m...