TY - JOUR
TI - Nosema pieriae sp. n. (Microsporida, Nosematidae): A New Microsporidian Pathogen of the Cabbage Butterfly Pieris brassicae L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) 
AU - Yaman, Mustafa
AU - Bekircan, Çağrı
AU - Radek, Renate
AU - Linde, Andreas
TI - Nosema pieriae sp. n. (Microsporida, Nosematidae): A New Microsporidian Pathogen of the Cabbage Butterfly Pieris brassicae L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) 
AB - A new microsporidian pathogen of the cabbage butterfly, Pieris brassicae is described based on light microscopy, ultrastructural characteristics and comparative small subunit rDNA analysis. The pathogen infects the gut of P. brassicae. All development stages are in direct contact with the host cell cytoplasm. Meronts are spherical or ovoid. Spherical meronts measure 3.68 ± 0.73 × 3.32 ± 1.09 µm and ovoid meronts 4.04 ± 0.74 × 2.63 ± 0.49 µm. Sporonts are spherical to elongate (4.52 ± 0.48 × 2.16 ± 0.27 µm). Sporoblasts are elongated and measure 4.67 ± 0.60 × 2.30 ± 0.30 µm in length. Fresh spores with nuclei arranged in a diplokaryon are oval and measure 5.29 ± 0.55 µm in length and 2.31 ± 0.29 µm in width. Spores stained with Giemsa’s stain measure 4.21 ± 0.50 µm in length and 1.91 ± 0.24 µm in width. Spores have an isofilar polar filament with six coils. All morphological, ultrastructural and molecular features indicate that the described microsporidium belongs to the genus Nosema and confirm that it has different taxonomic characters than other microsporidia infecting Pieris spp.
VL - 2014
IS - Volume 53, Issue 2
PY - 2014
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 223
EP - 232
DO - 10.4467/16890027AP.14.019.1600
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/nosema-pieriae-sp-n-microsporida-nosematidae-a-new-microsporidian-pathogen-of-the-cabbage-butterfly-pieris-brassicae-l-lepidoptera-pieridae
KW - Pieris brassicae
KW - microsporidian pathogen
KW - Nosema
KW - Lepidoptera
KW - biological control.