Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens related to Fungi. These organisms have a
unique invasion organelle, the polar tube, which upon appropriate environmental …

Parasitism, aptly defined as one of the 'living-together'strategies (Trager, 1986), presents a
dynamic system in which the parasite and its host are under evolutionary pressure to evolve …

A new microsporidian species, Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei sp. nov., is described from the
hepatopancreas of the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon (Crustacea: Decapoda) …

Compared to the higher fungi (Dikarya), taxonomic and evolutionary studies on the basal
clades of fungi are fewer in number. Thus, the generic boundaries and higher ranks in the …

This chapter highlights the biological and life cycle features of the entomogenous
microsporidia and provides some basic information on their taxonomic distribution. There is …

The Microsporidia are a group of obligate intracellular parasites, now thought to be derived
fungi. Presented here is a comparative small subunit rDNA (ssrDNA) analysis of 125 species …

An epidemic of hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (HPND) with a high mortality rate (40%–
50%) recently occurred in the cultured Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, which is a …

Most modern microsporidian species descriptions include detailed microscopic and ultra
structural images, and many of the more recent descriptions also include a small subunit …

PCR primers targeting conserved regions of the SSU rRNA gene are commonly used in
bacterial community studies. For microbes associated with eukaryotes, co-amplification of …

Amblyospora species and other aquatic Microsporidia were isolated from mosquitoes, black
flies, and copepods and the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene was sequenced …