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Biological characteristics of Scuticociliate with a polymorphic life cycle of ciliate and cyst isolated from cultured olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus  

Jin, Chang-Nam (Jeju Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office)
Kang, Hyun-Sil (Faculty of Marine Science, Cheju National University)
Park, Geun-Tae (Faculty of Marine Science, Cheju National University)
Lee, Je-Hee (Faculty of Marine Science, Cheju National University)
Lee, Young-Don (Institute of Marine and Environmental Research, Cheju National. University)
Choi, Woo-Bong (Dept. of Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Dongeui University)
Heo, Moon-Soo (Faculty of Marine Science, Cheju National University)
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Journal of fish pathology / v.18, no.1, 2005 , pp. 19-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
Scuticociliatosis has badly settled one of most damaging diseases during the seedling production process of olive flounder. Paralichthys olivaceus in Korea. We isolated a new type of Scuticociliate from flounder. The parasite metamorphoses to ciliate and cyst phases with each other by environmental changes and survive for a relatively long span. The ciliate was measured average 41.8 ${\mu}m$ in length and 21.0 ${\mu}m$ in width, and cyst was 17.0 ${\mu}m$ and 13.5 ${\mu}m$, respectively. Nutritional condition was determined as a major parameter of metamorphosing between ciliate and cyst stages. The ciliate transforms to a cyst stage because of food shortage, and the cyst returns to a ciliate stage with a favorite environmental condition and shows active growth and reproduction. The ciliate multiplied at the maximal density of $2.9 {\times} 10^5 {m\ell}^{-1}$cells in vitro cultivation at $15 ^{\circ}C$temperature using MS BHI medium and bacterial food sources. The ciliate could be proliferated at a 2.5 to $30 ^ \circ}C$ temperature range, pH 6 to 9, and 1 to 55 ppt salinity. Particularly, it survived over one week at $0 ^{\circ}C$temperature showing a high resistance against unfavorable environmental conditions. And the cyst survived for 320 days in the condition of $5 ^{\circ}C$with no feeding, but its survival period was markedly shortened in higher temperature conditions. The chemotherapeutants (formalin and hydrogen peroxide) were clarified as effective chemicals against the ciliate during in vitro trials, but the effect of therapeutants differed in proportion, depending upon the density and the bathing time of chemical compounds.
Keywords
Polymorphic life cycle; Scuticociliate; Ciliate stage; Cyst stage; Paralichthys olivaceus;
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