Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T01:02:35.887Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A quantitative study of the susceptibility of cockroach species to Moniliformis moniliformis (Acanthocephala)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. Moore  and
D. W. T. Crompton
J. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
D. W. T. Crompton
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

We exposed 19 species of cockroaches to Moniliformis moniliformis by administering shelled acanthors orally and by injecting hatched acanthors directly into the body cavity. The exposure method had little influence on susceptibility: with one exception, species that were susceptible to oral exposure were also susceptible to injected acanthors and, in no case, did acanthors develop in injected animals when they did not develop in orally exposed conspecifics. We found no support for the hypothesis that the intestine may be a barrier to M. maniliformis establishment in cockroaches. There is, however, clear interspecific variation in susceptibility to M. moniliformis infection.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 107 , Issue 1 , July 1993 , pp. 63 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Allely, Z., Moore, J. & Gotelli, N. J. (1992). Moniliformis moniliformis infection has no effect on some behaviors of the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Journal of Parasitology 78, 524–6.Google Scholar
Carmichael, L. M. & Moore, J. (1991). A comparison of behavioral alterations in the brown cockroach, Periplaneta brunnea, and the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, infected with the acanthocephalan, Moniliformis moniliformis. Journal of Parasitology 77, 931–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Edmonds, S. J. (1966). Hatching of the eggs of Moniliformis dubius. Experimental Parasitology 19, 216–26.Google Scholar
Freehling, M. & Moore, J. (1993). Susceptibility to Moniliformis moniliformis in 13 cockroach species. Journal of Parasitology 79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gotelli, N. J. & Moore, J. (1992). Altered host behaviour in a cockroach-acanthocephalan association. Animal Behaviour 43, 949–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lackie, J. M. (1973). Studies on interactions between Moniliformis (Acanthocephala) and its intermediate hosts. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.Google Scholar
Lackie, J. M. (1975). The host specificity of Moniliformis dubius (Acanthocephala), a parasite of cockroaches. International Journal for Parasitology 5, 301–7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moore, D. V. (1946). Studies on the life history and development of Moniliformis dubius Meyer, 1933. Journal of Parasitology 32, 257–71.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moore, J. & Gotelli, N. J. (1992). Moniliformis moniliformis increases cryptic behaviors in the cockroach Supella longipalpa. Journal of Parasitology 78, 49–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schmidt, G. D. (1985). Development and life cycles. In Biology of the Acanthocephala (ed. Crompton, D. W. T. & Nickol, B. B.), pp. 273–305. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Siegel, S. & Castellan, N. J. Jr (1988). Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edn.New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.Google Scholar
Sokal, R. R. & Rohlf, F. J. (1981). Biometry The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research, 2nd Edn.San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co.Google Scholar
Stoddart, R. C., Crompton, D. W. T. & Walters, D. E. (1991). Influence of host Strain and helminth isolate on the first phase of the relationship between rats and Moniliformis moniliformis (Acanthocephala). Journal of Parasitology 77, 373–7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed