Protistology 5 (2/3) 207-212 (2007/8)
Two species of the Paramecium aurelia complex (Ciliophora, Protista) from the Black Sea region
(Russia) with their RAPD-PCR fingerprints
Ewa Przyboś 1, Magdalena Greczek-Stachura 2, Malgorzata Prajer 1,
Alexey Potekhin 3 and Armen Cotsinian 3
1 Department of Experimental Zoology, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Slawkowska 17, 31-016 Krakow, Poland
Summary
The presence of Paramecium tetraurelia and Paramecium pentaurelia of the Paramecium aurelia
complex was revealed in the Black Sea region, Russia. P. tetraurelia was found for the first time on the
Russian territory. RAPD-PCR fingerprints were obtained for the newly identified P. tetraurelia and P.
pentaurelia strains and compared with the fingerprints of other strains of these two species. P.
tetraurelia had high polymorphism of fingerprints of strains of different geographical origin, while P.
pentaurelia showed 100% similarity of fingerprints of strains within the species.
Key words: Distribution of Paramecium aurelia species complex, intra-species polymorphism,
RAPD-PCR fingerprinting
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