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First Report of Colacium vesiculosum Ehrenberg 1853 (Euglenophyceae), as Epibiont on Planktonic Copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda), in a Brazilian Floodplain Lake

Publication date: 19.09.2014

Acta Protozoologica, 2014, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 335 - 340

https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.14.028.2023

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Adalgisa Fernanda Cabral
Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia Geral. Rodovia Goiânia-Nerópolis, Itatiaia, Goiânia, GO – Brasil
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Bárbara Dunck
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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Fernando Miranda Lansac-Toha
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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Liliana Rodrigues
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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Laura Roberta Pinto Utz
Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
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Luiz Felipe Machadovelho
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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First Report of Colacium vesiculosum Ehrenberg 1853 (Euglenophyceae), as Epibiont on Planktonic Copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda), in a Brazilian Floodplain Lake

Abstract

Epibiosis is a facultative association between two organisms: the epibiont, which colonizes the surface of living substrates, and the basibiont, which hosts the epibionts. Among protists, while numerous accounts exist for ciliates as epibionts of zooplankton, little information is available about the occurrence of this relationship between flagellates and microcrustaceans in the neotropics. During a survey on the epibiotic relationship between ciliated protists and planktonic copepods in a tropical floodplain, we reported for the first time the occurrence of Colacium vesiculosum as an epibiont onThermocyclops minutus and Notodiaptomus amazonicus from southern Brazil. The mean infestation prevalence was significantly higher on adults 30.53% (± 2.85) in comparison with copepodites 0.87% (± 0.55). When hosts were separated by order (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) copepodites presented a mean infestation prevalence of 0.92% (± 0.85) and 0.83% (± 0.60) respectively, while adults had a mean prevalence of 29.55% (± 6.8) and 30.13% (± 5.83), which could be explained by the fact that adult copepods provide a more stable substrate for epibionts.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2014, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 335 - 340

Article type: Original article

Authors

Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia Geral. Rodovia Goiânia-Nerópolis, Itatiaia, Goiânia, GO – Brasil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil

Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil

Published at: 19.09.2014

Article status: Open

Licence: None

Percentage share of authors:

Adalgisa Fernanda Cabral (Author) - 16%
Bárbara Dunck (Author) - 16%
Fernando Miranda Lansac-Toha (Author) - 16%
Liliana Rodrigues (Author) - 16%
Laura Roberta Pinto Utz (Author) - 16%
Luiz Felipe Machadovelho (Author) - 20%

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