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In Vitro Cultivation of Cymatocarpus solearis(Brachycoeliidae) Metacercariae to Obtain the Adult Stage without the Marine Turtle Definitive Host

  • Grano-Maldonado, Mayra (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mary Limnologia, Unidad Academica Sistemas Arrecifales) ;
  • Alvarez-Cadena, Jose (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mary Limnologia, Unidad Academica Sistemas Arrecifales)
  • Received : 2009.10.16
  • Accepted : 2010.02.20
  • Published : 2010.03.15
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Abstract

In vitro cultivation of trematodes would assist studies on the basic biology of the parasites and their hosts. This is the first study to use the yolk of unfertilized chicken eggs as a simple and successful method of ovocultivation and the first time to obtain the adult-stage of the trematode Cymatocarpus solearis Braun, 1899 (Digenea: Brachycoeliidae). Chicken eggs were inoculated with metacercariae from the muscle of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804). The metacercariae were excysted and incubated for 576 hr (24 days) at $38^{\circ}C$ to obtain the adult stage. Eggs in utero were normal in shape and light brown color. The metacercariae developed into mature parasites that have been identified as the adultstage found in marine turtles. The adult lobsters collected in Quintana Roo State, Mexico, showed the prevalence of 49.4% and the mean intensity of 26.0 per host (n=87). A statistical study was performed to determine that no parasitic preference was detected for male versus female parasitized lobsters. Morphometric measurements of the adult-stage of C. solearis obtained in our study have been deposited in the National Helminths Collection of the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. This study is significant because it is the first time that a digenean of the family Brachycoeliidae has been demonstrated to develop in vitro from metacercariae into adults capable of producing eggs using the yolk of unfertilized chicken eggs. Secondly, this technique allows to obtain the adult stage of C. solearis without the presence of its marine turtle host, allows us to describe the mature parasites, and thus contribute to our understanding of the biology of C. solearis.

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