The good, the bad and the ugly: Emys trinacris, Placobdella costata and Haemogregarina stepanowi in Sicily (Testudines, Annelida and Apicomplexa)
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1 Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS doi: Research Article The good, the bad and the ugly: Emys trinacris, Placobdella costata and Haemogregarina stepanowi in Sicily (Testudines, Annelida and Apicomplexa) Vincenzo Arizza, Francesco Sacco, Debora Russo, Rita Scardino, Marco Arculeo, Melita Vamberger and Federico Marrone Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Sezione di Biologia Animale ed Antropologia Museum für Tierkunde, Senckenberg Dresden, Dresden, Germany Abstract: Endemic Sicilian pond turtles Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk, Joger et Wink were exam ined for the presence of haemogregarine parasites. The presence of haemogregarines, occurring mainly in the microgametocyte stage E. trinacris. Based on the Haemogregarina stepanowi Dani H. stepanowi in erythrocyte shape depending on the infective stage. H. stepanowi by H. stepanowi in the closely related European pond turtle Emys orbicularis (Linneaus), monitoring of the health status of the infected Sicilian populations of E. trinacris is desirable. The restricted distribution of populations of Emys infected with haemogregarines in Keywords: widely distributed blood parasites in turtles worldwide involve merogony and the formation of gametocytes in a vertebrate host, and gamogony and sporogony in the sporozoites of these parasites live in invertebrate hosts, the merozoites are thought to be transmitted to turtles by turtles are better targets for leech attachment because of garine species are common and widely distributed in fresh presence of the parasite in the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus) and described it under the name Haemogregarina stepanowi vertebrate hosts is quite low and the same taxon might, of haemogregarines seems to be determined by the distri of the genus Placobdella Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pen nisi, Lenk, Joger et Wink is a Sicilian endemic pond turtle. Although it is morphologically similar to E. orbicularis ic studies have unambiguously revealed the presence of ary importance of this chelonian species and the reduction of its populations caused by habitat destruction, pollution and pathogens, E. trinacris the need for further studies aimed at its characterising and monitoring of its health status. leeches parasitising the Sicilian pond turtle (Marrone et al. parasites in the blood cells of wild populations of E. trinacris was investigated. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
2 Emys trinacris Table 1. Geographical coordinates of the sampled sites and synopsis of the studied blood samples of Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk, Joger et Wink. Sites Coordinates Infected/examined Lago Urio Quattrocchi, Mistretta (ME) Lago di Spartà, S. Agata di Militello (ME) Laghetto Frattina, Corleone (PA) Laghetto Coda di Riccio, Godrano (PA) Laghetto presso Valle Maria, Godrano (PA) 0/4 Lago presso C/da Costa del Renoso, Monreale (PA) Laghetto presso C/da Volta di Falce, Monreale (PA) Lago Gorgo, Montallegro (AG) Canale di Pantano Longarini, Ispica (RG) 0/4 Laghetti di Contrada Pantana, Caronia (ME) Chiusa Arcera, Monreale (PA) MATERIALS AND METHODS Sampling. One hundred one sicilian pond turtles were sam account for the possible ecological preferenda of all the compo Emys trinacris (see Mar Specimens of E. trinacris were captured by hands or by hoop net traps left overnight in concealed sites (Ream spection and detailed macroscopic inspection of the skin, plastron and carapace, blood samples were taken for cytological, haema tological and molecular analyses. Blood samples were obtained from the dorsal coccygeal vessel of each collected turtle. After blood samples had been obtained, the animals were immediately released into their natural environments. For each individual, two blood smears and one blood sample in ethanol were collected. Blood smears were prepared in situ according to Arizza et blood smears were examined under a Leica DMRE light micro was used to examine the slides and perform calculations. red blood cells (RBC) for each animal. For study of the erythrocyte were considered: lengths (L) and widths (W) and nuclear lengths EW ber or sizes) were summarised as the mean, standard deviation (SD), standard error of the mean (SE), and range. Molecular evaluation. blood samples from infected E. trinacris specimens collected in Laghetti di Contrada Pantana and Lago Urio Quattrocchi with an Staufen, Germany) and sequenced in both directions on an ABI (Applied Biosystems). Chromatograms were imported and edited Australia). The sequences obtained from Lago Urio Quattrocchi and Laghetti presso Contrada Pantana were deposited in GenBank Haemogregarina Hemolivia mauritanica was included in the analysis to be used as an outgroup. in the sequences of Hemolivia mauritanica (GenBank accession Haemogregarina balli Paterson et Dess H. pel-
3 ] % ; ; Emys trinacris '- '55''= 1-'< -1+ A B C E D F Fig. 1. Endogenous life stages of Haemogregarina stepanowi N Z '**K % Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk, Joger et Wink N [ 7 N % 7 % N Z %. A D ; % \ ; maturity, A, B % ; % N ; 9 9 9? N 9 Q6 C, D microgametocyte with a dense, homogeneous, 9 9 N N % ; % 6 E, F mature trophozoites are curved in a capsule with the nucleus located at the bend. legrini?_ $ '+'-Q? Z [** K-+Q?!Q ; % U %9%7 Z 7 lihood (ML) analyses were then performed as implemented in [ 2 1 <? X9 1-'1Q $ [_ 2? 9 1-'-Q N % 9 ; ; time reversible model of sequence evolution with a proportion of invariable sites (GTR + I), as selected by the Akaike information ~[ 1 ' +? R 1-'1Q Y 9 were evaluated by their posterior probabilities in the BI tree and N ' --- R [_ The BI analysis was performed with two independent runs ; 9 [ Z 9 ; 9 heating values. Trees and parameter values were sampled every '-- ; 9 ; K ---?1KVQ N 7 R9 7 }!! X9 9 N - -'' 9 9 N ' --- % indicating convergence of the runs. Ethics. Specimens of Emys trinacris were sampled and ex7 amined according to the national laws and considering all ethical requirements. The investigation was carried out with permission [ } %R 9 del Mareof the Republic of Italy under permission code U. prot. $Y[71-'' K 1K='-=1-'' $Y[71-'57---***5. RESULTS Blood smear analysis Based on the microscopic study of blood smear sam7 % 9 '-' 9 U % N % ; ;? R 'Q U specimens were collected in Laghetti di Contrada Pantana # $ ; 1-'< <2-1+ and three specimens in Lago Urio Quattrocchi, both locat7 Y R % 9 ; & % ; ; 7 ; ; X9 9 %! & %! N 7 9 K '--V 9 specimens of E. trinacris proved to be infected with haemogregarines. Conversely, no evidence for the presence of haemogregarine parasites N R +1 9 the other nine sampling sites, all of them located outside Y R % 9 ; ; R overall percentage of mean prevalence in Sicily stood at U % +V ; Morphology of haemogregarine parasites and infected erythrocytes In the examined infected specimens, we most frequent7 ly observed three developmental stages located inside the red cells of the peripheral blood as reported for haemogre7 ; 9 R?1--*Q % ; % % ; %?# ; 'Q $ 7 cilian pond turtles were morphologically similar and con7 ~ 9 Macrogametes, each with an oval shape and a granular nucleus, were usually located near the erythrocyte nucle7 us?# ; ' Q % 9 ; '1 - < H% ; < - < H% N The microgametes had a R ; 9 9?# ; '" Q N '2 - ' H% ; < - K H% N 9 9 N * ' - H% ; - < H% N The mature trophozoites were 7 N % 9 X9 9 %7 ing a large oval body contained in a capsule and appear7 ing withdrawn into themselves, with the nucleus posi7 $ ; 2 <
4 Emys trinacris Table 2. Dimensions from uninfected erythrocytes (U) of Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk, Joger et Wink compared with erythrocytes infected with microgranulocyte (M) and trophozoite (T). Turtle EL EW L/W ES (μm ) ) U M T Haemogregarina sp. (KF257925) 100 / * Haemogregarina sp. (KF257923) Haemogregarina sp. (KF257924) 87 / 63 H. sacaliae (KM887507) 87 / 60 H. pellegrini (KM887509) H. balli (HQ224959) 83 / / / 73 H. stepanowi SYRIA (KF257927) H. stepanowi SERBIA (KT749877) H. stepanowi ALGERIA (KF257929) H. stepanowi BULGARIA (KF257928) H. stepanowi IRAN (KF257926) Haemogregarina sp. ITALY - Laghetti di Contrada Pantana Haemogregarina sp. ITALY - Lago Urio Quattrocchi Hemolivia mauritanica (KF992710) Fig. 2. from GenBank are shown in parentheses. The predominant stages in our samples were macrog tro phozoites were rarely observed ( Infected erythrocytes had a normal or elongated shape measurements). The nucleus was displaced to a marginal some cases, a vacuole was observed near the trophozoite or with rarely occurring double infections. presence of Haemogregarina sp. in the blood of the Sicil ian pond turtles. The topologies of the phylogenetic trees based on BI and ML analyses were largely congruent and Haemogregarina species occurring in the Sicilian pond turtle as H. stepanowi, which Haemogregarina balli DISCUSSION garines in the erythrocytes of the endemic Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris. Based on the morphology of the in we were able to identify the observed haemogregarine spe cies as Haemogregarina stepanowi H. stepanowi is a widespread species in the Palaearctic region, ranging from Croatia to Iran and able to infect freshwater turtles belonging to the families of Emydidae and Geoemydidae. Until now H. stepanowi has not reported from Italy, nor, to the best of our knowledge, is any record of the presence of this apicomplexan parasite ion, such an apparent absence is most likely to be ascribed to the lack of dedicated surveys rather than to the actual ab sence of this intracellular parasite in western Europe. The intermediate (i.e. species of Mauremys [Gray] and Emys Placobdella
5 Emys trinacris costata [Müller]) hosts of the species are, in fact, known to widely occur in western Europe. The infection with H. stepanowi changes in the erythrocyte shape, depending on the in fective stage. The more marked changes occur in the case of infection with trophozoites because of their large size are longer and In erythrocytes infected with microgametocytes, the changes are less evident. The cells are slightly bigger, in E. trinacris present study, all morphometric values for the infected erythrocytes were within the ranges reported by Arizza et than in the uninfected turtles. parasitised with H. stepanowi compared to data of Ariz The consequences of a parasitosis by haemogregarines on the number of blood cells is not yet clear, but an in tense parasitism by haemogregarines has been reported to increase the number of lymphocytes and decrease the number of eosinophils in freshwater turtles (Mihalca et al. Homalopsis buccata (Linnaeus) parasitised with Haemogregarina sp. some evidence of an impact of H. stepanowi on the occur rence of shell necrosis and skin haemorrhages in Serbian Emys orbicularis Therefore, careful monitoring of the health status of infect ed populations is advisable. The nine infected Sicilian pond turtles we examined appeared otherwise healthy, and the level of observed hae the erythrocytes contained parasites in most turtles. In con only two Sicilian sites where H. stepanowi was observed Haemogregarina tive host of H. stepanowi, i.e. the leech P. costata, is known to occur. Interestingly, specimens of P. costata from Sicily are genetically identical to those occurring in southern Ita between their vertebrate hosts, i.e. the Sicilian E. trinacris and the Italian E. orbicularis Such an unexpected decoupling might be due to a recent, would be also supported by the evidence of the presence of introduced specimens of E. orbicularis from Italy in Lago If the introduced European pond turtles functioned as vectors for the passive dispersal of P. costata and H. stepanowi in Sicily, the presence of H. stepanowi in the Sicilian pond turtle should be considered a case of parasite netic characterisation of Sicilian and Italian populations of H. stepanowi ular markers, would allow testing for the existence in Sici ly of autochthonous vs introduced strains of H. stepanowi, and for the development of adequate management plans. On the basis of this information and considering the pos sible anthropogenic introduction of H. stepanowi to Sicily, the health status and the population dynamics of infected populations of E. trinacris should be carefully monitored haemoparasite on the conservation of the endemic Sicilian pond turtle. Acknowledgements. Tutela del Territorio e del Mare is gratefully acknowledged for having provided the permit to allow sampling of Emys spp. in Sici Two anonymous reviewers are acknowledged for their construc tive criticism, which allowed us to improve the manuscript. REFERENCES endangered Sicilian endemic pond turtle, Emys trinacris (Testu Phylogenetic position of the adeleorinid coccidia (Myzozoa, Apicomplexa, Coccidia, Eucoccidiorida, Adeleorina) inferred Pla-
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