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 …

Microsporidia are found worldwide and both vertebrates and invertebrates can serve as
hosts for these organisms. While microsporidiosis in humans can occur in both immune …

Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing carbon dioxide into 1
Gt of biomass annually, yet the fate of fucoidan—their major cell wall polysaccharide …

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 …

Across the diversity of life, organisms have evolved different strategies to thrive in hypoxic
environments, and microbial eukaryotes (protists) are no exception. Protists that experience …

Members of the flavobacterial genus Polaribacter thrive in response to North Sea spring
phytoplankton blooms. We analyzed two respective Polaribacter species by whole genome …

Proteasomes play an essential role in the life cycle of intracellular pathogens with
extracellular stages by ensuring proteostasis in environments with limited resources. In …

Microsporidia are an abundant group of obligate intracellular parasites of other eukaryotes,
including immunocompromised humans, but the molecular basis of their intracellular …

From hundreds of independent transitions from a free-living existence to a parasitic mode of
life, separate parasite lineages have converged over evolutionary time to share traits and …

Intracellular parasitism results in extreme adaptations, whose evolutionary history is difficult
to understand, because the parasites and their known free-living relatives are so divergent …