In the last few years two factors have helped to significantly advance our understanding of
the Myxozoa. First, the phenomenal increase in fin fish aquaculture in the 1990s has lead to …

Biodiversity and evolution of the Myxozoa Page 59 Biodiversity and Evolution of the Myxozoa
Elizabeth U. Canning¹ and Beth Okamura² Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College …

Myxozoans are highly specialized metazoan parasites of aquatic hosts with a very wide host
range. This diverse group of organisms is characterized by multicellular spores with polar …

Myxozoans are spore-forming parasites of both freshwater and marine fishes (Lom &
Dyková, 1992, Kent et al., 2001; Feist & Longshaw, 2006). The Myxozoa were previously …

Clams (Dosinia exoleta, Ruditapes philippinarum, Venerupis pullastra, Venerupis
rhomboideus, Venus verrucosa), mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis), and oysters (Ostrea …

Nereis diversicolor OF Müller and N. succinea Frey et Leuckart (Polychaeta, Nereidae) living
in brackish shallow areas in Denmark are naturally infected with tetractinomyxon …

Experiments were conducted to evaluate routes of transmission and subsequent
development of Kudoa thyrsites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar …

Increased global connectivity and shorter transportation times translate to a higher
probability and frequency that hosts and their parasites will be introduced to foreign …

Myxozoans are obligate parasites with complex life cycles, typically infecting fish and
annelids. Here, we examined annelids from fish farm pond sediments in the Beit Shean …

The morphology of Zschokkella mugilis (Myxosporea, Bivalvulida) in Nereis diversicolor OF
Müller, 1776 is described for the first time. The molecular data show that the actinospore has …