An unexpected tenant: contamination in a Physeter catodon (Physeteridae, Artiodactyla) genome indicates undescribed species of Sarcocystis Lankester, 1882 (Sarcocystidae, Eucoccidiorida) in the marine environment

• Published in: Folia Parasitologica
• Main Authors: Faria, Joaquim Filipe, Harris, David James
• Language: English
• Subjects: endoparasite; sperm whale; marine mammal; Sarcocystis neurona; Sarcocytis canis; Catodon; Lankester; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:f34800ce-2304-48f1-920d-88353e12964b; https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2022.004

Data mining animal of genomes has been used before to identify endoparasites, and may be a particularly useful tool to surpass some difficulties faced by studies in the marine environment. We detected a species of Sarcocystis Lankester, 1882, contamination in the sperm whale (Physeter catodon Linnae...