Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens identified∼ 150 years ago as the cause
of pébrine, an economically important infection in silkworms. There are about 220 genera …

Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens related to Fungi. These organisms have a
unique invasion organelle, the polar tube, which upon appropriate environmental …

A revolution is occurring in biology: perhaps it is better characterized as a revolution within a
revolution. I am, of course, referring to the impact that the increasingly rapid capacity to …

The demarcation of protist kingdoms is reviewed, a complete revised classification down to
the level of subclass is provided for the kingdoms Protozoa, Archezoa, and Chromista, and …

Microsporidia are eukaryotic and unicellular. Structural characters are still basic for
microsporidian classification, despite that molecular biology characters are progressively …

Parasitism, aptly defined as one of the 'living-together'strategies (Trager, 1986), presents a
dynamic system in which the parasite and its host are under evolutionary pressure to evolve …

▪ Abstract Microsporidia are a large group of microbial eukaryotes composed exclusively of
obligate intracellular parasites of other eukaryotes. Almost 150 years of microsporidian …

Publisher Summary This chapter highlights endosymbiont hypothesis. All contemporary
genomes (including those of plastids and mitochondria) ultimately derive from a single …

Insect Symbiosis summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic
organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge …

The microsporidia are a group of unusual, obligately parasitic protists that infect a great
variety of other eukaryotes, including vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, annelids …