Maureen K. Purcell
Diane G. Elliott
Paul K. Hershberger
Carla M. Conway
2015
<p><i>Ichthyophonus hoferi</i><span> (Plehn & Mulsow </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0014" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0014">1911</a><span>) is a protistan parasite in the class Mesomycetozoea that infects a large range of marine and freshwater fish (Mendoza, Taylor & Ajello </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0013" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0013">2002</a><span>; McVicar </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0012" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0012">2011</a><span>). The broad host and geographic range, which includes both fresh and marine waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, combined with a lack of distinguishing morphological characteristics, have prompted speculation that </span><i>Ichthyophonus</i><span>-like organisms in multiple species of fish, as well as reptiles, amphibians, birds and invertebrates, may have been incorrectly classified under a single type species </span><i>I. hoferi</i><span> (McVicar </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0012" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0012">2011</a><span>). At present, only two species,</span><i>I. hoferi</i><span> and </span><i>I. irregularis</i><span>, are currently recognized within the genus (Rand </span><i>et al</i><span>. </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0015" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0015">2000</a><span>; Mendoza </span><i>et al</i><span>. </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0013" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0013">2002</a><span>). Investigations of ribosomal DNA sequence variation have begun to clarify relationships among </span><i>Ichthyophonus</i><span> types (Criscione </span><i>et al</i><span>. </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0003" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0003">2002</a><span>; Rasmussen </span><i>et al</i><span>. </span><a class="referenceLink" title="Link to bibliographic citation" rel="references:#jfd12300-bib-0016" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfd.12300/full#jfd12300-bib-0016">2010</a><span>). Here, we will use the term </span><i>Ichthyophonus</i><span> to broadly represent all members of the genus regardless of species/subspecies.</span></p>
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Detection of <i>Ichthyophonus</i> by chromogenic <i>in situ</i> hybridization
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