Neoactinomyxon (Actenosporean Stage, Myxozoa) from Freshwaters of Meerut Region
Journal Title: Voyager - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Although we know about Myxosporean of fishes but practically nothing has been done on actinosporeans infecting oligochaetes from India. The Myxosporean are one of important group of micro organisms parasitizing marine & freshwater fishes, causing serious diseases including kidney disease & whirling disease in Salmonid. It has been established that actinosporean are infective stages of Myxosporean ( Molnar etal., 1999). Water samples were collected from the fish culture ponds of Meerut region together with mud and roots of aquatic vegetation together with oligochaetes (Tubifex tubifex). Clear water was taken out & filtered through 10 pore size filter paper for examination of Neoactinomyxon. The photographs of Neoactinomyxon were taken with the help of Motic research microscope at high magnification . Digitized still images of the actinospore were taken with the help of Motic image programme & drawings of actinospore were made. The measurements were taken as described by Lom et al., (1997). The characterization and identification of the Neoactinomyxon recorded with the help of classical work of Yokoyama et al., (1993 and 1995).Mature spores were style-less, composed of spore body and three caudal processes. The spore body contains the sporoplasm with several infective cells and three polar capsules. Polar capsules are more or less pyriform in longitudinal view. The caudal processes are very short and a nucleus is visible in each of them. The present investigation has been started to isolate some actinosporean stage from Meerut region.
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Neetu Neetu, Sangeeta Pal
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