Resurrection and redescription of Varestrongylus alces (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae), a lungworm of the Eurasian moose (Alces alces), with report on associated pathology

Table 1 Lungworm material collected and/or used in the study

USNPC*	*Varestrongylus*species	Host	Country	Specimens	GenBank**
106331	V. alces Demidova & Naumitscheva 1953	Alces alces ^a	Norway	1♂	KJ452181-83
106332	V. alces	A. alces ^a	Norway	1♂	KJ452188-90
106333	V. alces	A. alces ^a	Norway	3♀	NA
106334	V. alces	A. alces ^a	Norway	DSL	NA
106335	V. alces	A. alces ^b	Norway	1♂, 2♀	NA
106336	V. alces	A. alces ^c	Norway	2♂, 3♀	NA
106337	V. alces	A. alces ^d	Norway	1♂ (neotype)	NA
106338	V. alces	A. alces ^d	Norway	2♂, 3♀	NA
106339	V. alces	A. alces ^d	Norway	♀	KJ452195-96
106340	V. alces	A. alces ^d	Norway	♂^g	KJ452191-94
NA	V. alces	A. alces ^d	Norway	fragment	KJ452184-87
106341	V. cf. capreoli	Capreolus capreolus ^e	Norway	6♂,5♀	NA
106342	V. cf. capreoli	C. capreolus ^e	Norway	1♀	KJ452177-80
106343	V. cf. capreoli	C. capreolus ^e	Norway	1♀	NA
106344	V. cf. capreoli	C. capreolus ^f	Norway	1♀, DSL	NA
NA	V. cf. capreoli	C. capreolus ^e	Norway	fragment	KJ452174-76
104105	V. sagittatus (Mueller 1890)	Cervus elaphus	Bulgaria	1♂	KJ439592-95
104105	V. sagittatus	C. elaphus	Bulgaria	1♀	KJ439596-99

*Museum accession numbers; Additional host information (Eurasian moose): a. V-376, yearling female; b. V-377, yearling female; c. V-383, adult female; d. V-456, yearling male. Roe deer - e. V-379, adult male; f. V-510, adult female; g. broken specimen, not used for morphometry. **Number of ITS-2 sequences varies according to number of clones yielded from DNA lysates of each individual worm.
Lungworm material collected and/or used in the study, with information on host and origin, and matching accession numbers for specimens deposited at the United States National Parasite Collection (USNPC) and sequences at the internal transcribed spacer-2 locus of the nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS-2) deposited in GenBank.

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