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Of bacteria, worms, flies, moose and bears

Rosanna Giordano, rosanna.giordano@uvm.edu, University of Vermont, Plant and Soil Sciences, 105 Carrigan Dr, Hills Bldg, Burlington, VT and K. Nygren, kaarlonygren@hotmail.com, Ilomantsi Game Research Station, Ilomantsi, Finland.

Moose (Alces alces) and bears (Ursus sp.) can be infected with the filarial worms, Onchocerca cervipedis and Dirofilaria ursi respectively. Both filaria are vectored by insects and do not appear to cause overt pathology in their hosts. This work compares the taxonomic relationship of both filarial species with other members of their genus, as well as the Wolbachia symbionts they harbor and tests for the existence of host (filarial) and parasite (Wolbachia) congruence.


Species 1: Spirurida Onchocercidae Onchocerca cervipedis
Species 2: Spirurida Onchocercidae Dirofilaria ursi
Species 3: Rickettsiales Rickettsiaceae Wolbachia
Keywords: phylogeny, Cytochrome oxidase I

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