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Goossen Lebrón TS, Garcete-Barrett BR. First report of Lipoptena mazamae Rondani, 1878 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from Paraguay. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports 2022; 27:100658. [PMID: 35012732 DOI: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2021.100658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 10/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We report for the first time from Paraguay the louse-fly Lipoptena mazamae Rondani, 1878 (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), based on an individual retrieved from the body of a gray brocket Mazama gouazoubira (Fischer), found dead in the Tatí Yupí Biological Refuge, in Alto Paraná, Eastern Paraguay. Before this finding, in the decade of the 1940's, this species of fly was wrongly recorded from Paraguay, based on material collected in Bolivia, some 300 km from the border to Paraguay.
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- Thomas S Goossen Lebrón
- Itaipu Binacional, Centro Ambiental, Centro de Investigación de Animales Silvestres, Supercarretera Itaipu, km 16, Hernandarias, Paraguay.
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- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, Km 10 y 1/2, Sucursal 1 Campus U.N.A., 111421 CDP, Central XI, San Lorenzo, Paraguay; Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Dirección de Investigación c/o Departamento de Biología, Casilla de Correo 1039, Campus U.N.A., 111421 CDP, Central XI, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
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Gutiérrez EE, Helgen KM, McDonough MM, Bauer F, Hawkins MTR, Escobedo-Morales LA, Patterson BD, Maldonado JE. A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling. Zookeys 2017; 697:87-131. [PMID: 29134018 PMCID: PMC5673856 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.697.15124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The taxonomy of American deer has been established almost entirely on the basis of morphological data and without the use of explicit phylogenetic methods; hence, phylogenetic analyses including data for all of the currently recognized species, even if based on a single gene, might improve current understanding of their taxonomy. We tested the monophyly of the morphology-defined genera and species of New World deer (Odocoileini) with phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences. This is the first such test conducted using extensive geographic and taxonomic sampling. Our results do not support the monophyly of Mazama, Odocoileus, Pudu, M. americana, M. nemorivaga, Od. hemionus, and Od. virginianus. Mazama contains species that belong to other genera. We found a novel sister-taxon relationship between "Mazama" pandora and a clade formed by Od. hemionus columbianus and Od. h. sitkensis, and transfer pandora to Odocoileus. The clade formed by Od. h. columbianus and Od. h. sitkensis may represent a valid species, whereas the remaining subspecies of Od. hemionus appear closer to Od. virginianus. Pudu (Pudu) puda was not found sister to Pudu (Pudella) mephistophiles. If confirmed, this result will prompt the recognition of the monotypic Pudella as a distinct genus. We provide evidence for the existence of an undescribed species now confused with Mazama americana, and identify other instances of cryptic, taxonomically unrecognized species-level diversity among populations here regarded as Mazama temama, "Mazama" nemorivaga, and Hippocamelus antisensis. Noteworthy records that substantially extend the known distributions of M. temama and "M." gouazoubira are provided, and we unveil a surprising ambiguity regarding the distribution of "M." nemorivaga, as it is described in the literature. The study of deer of the tribe Odocoileini has been hampered by the paucity of information regarding voucher specimens and the provenance of sequences deposited in GenBank. We pinpoint priorities for future systematic research on the tribe Odocoileini.
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- Eliécer E. Gutiérrez
- PPG Biodiversidade Animal, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Av. Roraima n. 1000, Prédio 17, sala 1140-D, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS 97105-900, Brazil
- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
- Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences and Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, circuito exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, CP04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL60605, USA
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- Center for Conservation Genomics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
- Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
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Falcão CBR, Lima ILDMNF, Duarte JMB, de Oliveira JRM, Torres RA, Wanderley AM, Gomes da Cunha JE, Garcia JE. Are Brazilian cervids at risk of prion diseases? Prion 2017; 11:65-70. [PMID: 28281927 PMCID: PMC5360121 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2016.1274000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Prion diseases are neurodegenerative fatal disorders that affect human and non-human mammals. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a prion disease of cervids regarded as a public health problem in North America, and polymorphisms at specific codons in the PRNP gene are associated with this disease. To assess the potential CWD susceptibility of South American free-ranging deer, the presence of these polymorphisms was examined in Mazama gouazoubira, Ozotoceros bezoarticus and Blastocerus dichotomus. Despite the lack of CWD reports in Brazil, the examined codons (95, 96, 116, 132, 225, and 226) of the PRNP gene showed potential CWD susceptibility in Brazilian deer. Low abundancy of deer in Brazil possibly difficult both CWD proliferation and detection, however, CWD surveillance may not be neglected.
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- Caio Bruno Ribeiro Falcão
- Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, Brazil;
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- Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, Brazil;
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- Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, PE, Brazil;
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Heckeberg NS, Erpenbeck D, Wörheide G, Rössner GE. Systematic relationships of five newly sequenced cervid species. PeerJ 2016; 4:e2307. [PMID: 27602278 PMCID: PMC4991894 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cervid phylogenetics has been puzzling researchers for over 150 years. In recent decades, molecular systematics has provided new input for both the support and revision of the previous results from comparative anatomy but has led to only partial consensus. Despite all of the efforts to reach taxon-wide species sampling over the last two decades, a number of cervid species still lack molecular data because they are difficult to access in the wild. By extracting ancient DNA from museum specimens, in this study, we obtained partial mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences for Mazama bricenii, Mazama chunyi, Muntiacus atherodes, Pudu mephistophiles, and Rusa marianna, including three holotypes. These new sequences were used to enrich the existing mitochondrial DNA alignments and yielded the most taxonomically complete data set for cervids to date. Phylogenetic analyses provide new insights into the evolutionary history of these five species. However, systematic uncertainties within Muntiacus persist and resolving phylogenetic relationships within Pudu and Mazama remain challenging.
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- Nicola S Heckeberg
- Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; SNSB-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; SNSB-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany; GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; SNSB-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany; GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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