Microsporidia: obligate intracellular pathogens within the fungal kingdom

B Han, LM Weiss - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens related to Fungi. These organisms have a
unique invasion organelle, the polar tube, which upon appropriate environmental …

Microsporidia: emerging pathogenic protists

LM Weiss - Acta tropica, 2001 - Elsevier
Microsporidia are eukaryotic spore forming obligate intracellular protozoan parasites first
recognized over 100 years ago. These organisms infect all of the major animal groups and …

Genome sequence and gene compaction of the eukaryote parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi

MD Katinka, S Duprat, E Cornillot, G Méténier… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites infesting many animal groups. Lacking
mitochondria and peroxysomes, these unicellular eukaryotes were first considered a deeply …

Impact of genome reduction in microsporidia

N Jespersen, L Monrroy, J Barandun - Microsporidia: Current Advances in …, 2022 - Springer
Microsporidia represent an evolutionary outlier in the tree of life and occupy the extreme
edge of the eukaryotic domain with some of their biological features. Many of these …

The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses

JL Collier, JS Rest, L Gallot-Lavallée, E Lavington… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the world's oceans, where they play
important ecological and biogeochemical roles. Metagenomics is revealing new groups of …

Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations

N Cordes, WF Huang, JP Strange, SA Cameron… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2012 - Elsevier
Several bumble bee (Bombus) species in North America have undergone range reductions
and rapid declines in relative abundance. Pathogens have been suggested as causal …

Telomere-to-Telomere genome assemblies of human-infecting Encephalitozoon species

AC Mascarenhas Dos Santos, AT Julian, P Liang… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Microsporidia are diverse spore forming, fungal-related obligate intracellular
pathogens infecting a wide range of hosts. This diversity is reflected at the genome level with …

Genomic Survey of the Non-Cultivatable Opportunistic Human Pathogen, Enterocytozoon bieneusi

DE Akiyoshi, HG Morrison, S Lei, X Feng… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most common microsporidian associated with human
disease, particularly in the immunocompromised population. In the setting of HIV infection, it …

Ribosomal RNA genes in eukaryotic microorganisms: witnesses of phylogeny?

AL Torres-Machorro, R Hernández… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The study of genomic organization and regulatory elements of rRNA genes in metazoan
paradigmatic organisms has led to the most accepted model of rRNA gene organization in …

[图书][B] The fungal kingdom

J Heitman, BJ Howlett, PW Crous, EH Stukenbrock… - 2020 - books.google.com
Fungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and
genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new …