Morphological, gene sequence, host tissue tropism, and life cycle characteristics were utilized to describe the myxozoan, n. sp. from fathead minnow, collected from reservoirs in southern Alberta. Results from serial histological sections of whole heads showed that myxospores were contained within irregular-shaped and sized coelozoic capsules (=plasmodia). Clusters of membrane-bound, myxospore-filled plasmodia filled the head cavities of juvenile fathead minnows, leading to the development of large, white, disfiguring lesions in mid to late summer. Bilateral exopthalmia (pop-eye disease) was a common outcome of n. sp. development. BLASTn search of a 1974 bp sequence of the 18S rDNA gene isolated from myxospores indicated that . n. sp. was distinct from other coelozoic and histozoic spp. cataloged in GenBank. 18S rDNA gene sequences from triactinomyxon spores released from the oligochaete were 100% identical to sequences from myxospores collected from syntopic fathead minnows. Results from a longitudinal survey of the 2020 cohort of fathead minnows showed that young-of-the-year are exposed at 1-5 mo and that 60-90% of these had developed myxospore-filled lesions approximately one year later. Data regarding potential sources and timing of n. sp. emergence in fathead minnow populations are needed.
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