Human-induced global change is expected to amplify the disease risk for marine biota.
However, the role of disease in the rapid global decline of seagrass is largely unknown …

Fungi, nematodes and oomycetes belong to the most prominent eukaryotic plant pathogenic
organisms. Unicellular organisms from other eukaryotic lineages, commonly addressed as …

Living organisms in aquatic ecosystems are almost constantly confronted by pathogens.
Nevertheless, very little is known about diseases of marine diatoms, the main primary …

Background Phytomyxids (plasmodiophorids and phagomyxids) are cosmopolitan, obligate
biotrophic protist parasites of plants, diatoms, oomycetes and brown algae …

Viruses, bacteria, and eukaryotic symbionts interact with algae in a variety of ways to cause
disease complexes, often shaping marine and freshwater ecosystems. The advent of …

In this study, we created a dataset of a continuous three-year 18S metabarcoding survey to
identify eukaryotic parasitoids, and potential connections to hosts at the Long-Term …

Zoosporic parasites have received increased attention during the last years, but it is still
largely unnoted that these parasites can themselves be infected by hyperparasites. Some …

Phytomyxea (plasmodiophorids) is an enigmatic group of obligate biotrophic parasites. Most
of the known 41 species are associated with terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae is a major and growing problem for the
cultivation of Brassica crops. As conventional control disease management methods are …

Interactions between various microbial pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi,
oomycetes, and their plant hosts have traditionally been the focus of phytopathology. In …