Effect of 80% ethanol or 10% formalin fixation, freezing at −20 C and staining on Myxobolus (Myxosporea) spores to be deposited in parasitological collections

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife(2022)

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The preparation of myxosporeans for the description of myxospores and their preservation as type material in parasitological collections show great variations. Most frequently, formalin and ethanol are used for fixation and Giemsa solution for staining spores. In this work, authors studied the effect of 80% ethanol and 10% formalin fixation, freezing at −20 °C and staining on the size and transparency of two Myxobolus species of cyprinid fishes, M. bramae and M. bliccae spore, and recommended a new method for the deposition of type material to parasitological collections in museums. The studies have commended that fresh spores from mature plasmodia are the best material for measuring the size and studying the inner structures, the number of polar tubules in polar capsules and the morphological characters of the intercapsular appendix. The obtained quantitative data suggest that cryo- and chemical preservation do not have a notable negative effect on spores compared to fresh samples but they decrease the transparency of spores. Staining the spores with Ziehl–Neelsen has proved to be a useful method for studying the fine structure without size reduction, while Giemsa staining induced a shrinkage of spores so it seems to be not ideal for description of a new species. When treating spores of Myxobolus spp. with Lugol's solution, iodinophilous vacuoles in the sporoplasm were not recognised but visualisation of the coils of polar tubules was enhanced. As a type material for newly described species, authors suggest phototypes and spores fixed in 80% ethanol to be deposited into collections, as this preservation method is suitable for subsequent research, such as re-measurements and molecular analysis.
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80% ethanol fixation,10% formalin fixation,Freezing at −20 °C,Giemsa staining,Ziehl–Neelsen staining,Myxobolus spores
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