[HTML][HTML] Evolution of microsporidia: An extremely successful group of eukaryotic intracellular parasites

L Wadi, AW Reinke - PLoS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that can infect a wide range of hosts. They
cause death and disease in both humans and agriculturally important animals. They have …

The ins and outs of host‐microsporidia interactions during invasion, proliferation and exit

H Tamim El Jarkass, AW Reinke - Cellular Microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microsporidia are a large group of fungal‐related obligate intracellular parasites. They are
responsible for infections in humans as well as in agriculturally and environmentally …

Clarifying the relationships between Microsporidia and Cryptomycota

D Bass, L Czech, BAP Williams… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Some protists with microsporidian‐like cell biological characters, including Mitosporidium,
Paramicrosporidium, and Nucleophaga, have SSU rRNA gene sequences that are much …

[HTML][HTML] A microsporidian impairs Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes

JK Herren, L Mbaisi, E Mararo, EE Makhulu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A possible malaria control approach involves the dissemination in mosquitoes of inherited
symbiotic microbes to block Plasmodium transmission. However, in the Anopheles gambiae …

Generation of a microsporidia species attribute database and analysis of the extensive ecological and phenotypic diversity of microsporidia

BM Murareanu, R Sukhdeo, R Qu, J Jiang, AW Reinke - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microsporidia are a large group of fungus-related obligate intracellular parasites. Though
many microsporidia species have been identified over the past 160 years, depiction of the …

Evolutionary compaction and adaptation visualized by the structure of the dormant microsporidian ribosome

J Barandun, M Hunziker, CR Vossbrinck… - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Microsporidia are eukaryotic parasites that infect essentially all animal species, including
many of agricultural importance,–, and are significant opportunistic parasites of humans …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of microsporidia host-exposed proteins reveals a repertoire of rapidly evolving proteins

AW Reinke, KM Balla, EJ Bennett… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Pathogens use a variety of secreted and surface proteins to interact with and manipulate
their hosts, but a systematic approach for identifying such proteins has been lacking. To …

Decay of the glycolytic pathway and adaptation to intranuclear parasitism within Enterocytozoonidae microsporidia

D Wiredu Boakye, P Jaroenlak… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation are the fundamental pathways of ATP generation
in eukaryotes. Yet in microsporidia, endoparasitic fungi living at the limits of cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic and phenotypic evolution of nematode-infecting microsporidia

L Wadi, HT El Jarkass, TD Tran, N Islah… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Microsporidia are a large phylum of intracellular parasites that can infect most types of
animals. Species in the Nematocida genus can infect nematodes including Caenorhabditis …