Seafood is a highly traded food commodity. Farmed and captured crustaceans contribute a
significant proportion with annual production exceeding 10M metric tonnes with first sale …

Intensification of food production has the potential to drive increased disease prevalence in
food plants and animals. Microsporidia are diversely distributed, opportunistic, and density …

Microsporidia cause important diseases in aquatic organisms. Susceptible hosts span a
remarkable taxonomic spectrum, from protists to mammals. Known genera represent a small …

Compared to the higher fungi (Dikarya), taxonomic and evolutionary studies on the basal
clades of fungi are fewer in number. Thus, the generic boundaries and higher ranks in the …

This chapter reviews the morphological features and development of the more typical
microsporidian life cycles. It refers the microsporidia as protists. The general life cycle …

Global shipping facilitates the introduction of invasive species and parasites via ballast
water and hull fouling. Regional management of invasives may be strengthened by …

Disease is a major limiting factor in the global production of cultivated shrimp. The
microsporidian parasite Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) was formally characterized in …

The microsporidian Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei from Penaeus vannamei (EHP Pv) was
redescribed on the basis of spore morphology, life cycle, pathology, and molecular …

Vessel biofouling is a major pathway for the introduction, establishment, and subsequent
spread of marine non-indigenous macro-organisms. As a result, national and international …

An epidemic of hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (HPND) with a high mortality rate (40%–
50%) recently occurred in the cultured Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, which is a …