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The Phenomenon of Glycocalyx Layer Loss in the Acanthocephalan Corynosoma strumosum (Rudolphi, 1802) Lühe, 1904 (ACANTHOCEPHALA: POLYMORPHIDAE) in Paratenic Hosts in Nature and in Experiments

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The phenomenon of renewal of the surface of the tegument in the acanthocephalan Corynosoma strumosum, which parasitizes paratenic hosts of different species, has been discovered and confirmed for the first time by electron microscopy. Under conditions of experimental invasion of Middendorff’s eelpout Hadropareia middendorffii (Schmidt, 1904) (Zoarcidae), the separation of the glycocalyx from the tegument was observed on the third day of the experiment. In acanthocephalans found in fish dissected on the 14th and subsequent days of the experiment, and in fish infected in nature, the tegument was covered with the same thick layer of glycocalyx, which apparently formed again. A similar phenomenon was observed in two individuals of Corynosoma strumosum that invaded the halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis (Schmidt, 1904) (Pleuronectidae) in nature; however, their tegument lost the outer membrane along with a thick layer of glycocalyx. In other acanthocephalans that invaded this species of halibut, the tegument was covered with a thin layer of glycocalyx. It is assumed that the described phenomena are a morphological manifestation of the parasite’s defense against the host’s immune response.

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The work was carried out within the framework of the State assignment Taxonomic, morphological and ecological diversity of helminths of vertebrate animals of northern Asia, no. ААА-А17-117012710031-6.

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Skorobrekhova, E.M., Nikishin, V.P. The Phenomenon of Glycocalyx Layer Loss in the Acanthocephalan Corynosoma strumosum (Rudolphi, 1802) Lühe, 1904 (ACANTHOCEPHALA: POLYMORPHIDAE) in Paratenic Hosts in Nature and in Experiments. Russ J Mar Biol 49, 5–12 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106307402301008X

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