DOI

  • Anastasia N. Ignatieva
  • Aleksei V. Gerus
  • Igor V. Senderskiy
  • Svetlana M. Malysh
  • Viktor I. Dolzhenko
  • Yuri S. Tokarev

Chorthippus loratus collected in Krasnodar Territory in 2017 was infected at 15% rate with a microsporidium possessing ovocylindrical binucleate spores, 2.6 × 1.2 μm in size. SSU RNA gene typing (Genbank accession # MH396491) showed its allocation to the genus Liebermannia. Degenerate primers based upon largest subunit RNA polymerase II (RPB1) sequences of closest relatives allowed amplifying the respective gene fragment of Liebermannia sp. (# MH396492). The present finding indicates worldwide distribution of the Liebermannia genus and parasitism in hosts with nonoverlapping geographic ranges (representing Neotropical versus Palearctic fauna), while previous observations were restricted to Acridoidea endemic for South America.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)680-683
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
Volume66
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2019

    Research areas

  • Light microscopy, molecular phylogenetics, prevalence rate

    Scopus subject areas

  • Microbiology

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