Water fleas of the genus Daphnia have been a model system for hundreds of years and is
among the best studied ecological model organisms to date. Daphnia are planktonic …

The relationship between entomopathogenic fungi and their insect hosts is a classic
example of the co-evolutionary arms race between pathogen and target host. The present …

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 …

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 …

The accumulation of micro-and nanoplastic particles in freshwater bodies has given rise to
much concern regarding their potential adverse effects on aquatic biota. Beyond their known …

Most humans carry mites in the hair follicles of their skin for their entire lives. Follicular mites
are the only metazoans that continuously live on humans. We propose that Demodex …

Microsporidia are intracellular parasitic fungi whose genomes rank among the smallest of all
known eukaryotes. A number of outstanding questions remain concerning the evolution of …

This review explores the origins of intracellular parasitism, an intriguing facet of symbiosis,
where one organism harms its host, potentially becoming deadly. We focus on three …

Background Intracellular symbionts often undergo genome reduction, losing both coding
and non-coding DNA in a process that ultimately produces small, gene-dense genomes with …

Microsporidia are obligatory intracellular parasites related to fungi and since their discovery
their classification and origin has been controversial due to their unique morphology. Early …