Extremely Reduced Levels of Heterozygosity in the Vertebrate Pathogen Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Complete Genome Sequences from Three Genetically Distinct Strains Reveal High Intraspecies Genetic Diversity in the Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi

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Phylogenomics supports microsporidia as the earliest diverging clade of sequenced fungi

(2012) Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Microsporidian genome analysis reveals evolutionary strategies for obligate intracellular growth

(2012) C. A. Cuomo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Sex, outcrossing and mating types: unsolved questions in fungi and beyond

(2012) S. BILLIARD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gain and loss of multiple functionally related, horizontally transferred genes in the reduced genomes of two microsporidian parasites

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Having a pair: the key to immune evasion for the diploid pathogen Schistosoma japonicum

(2012) Xindong Xu et al.   Scientific Reports

Sex in Fungi

(2011) Min Ni et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Acquisition of an animal gene by microsporidian intracellular parasites

(2011) Mohammed Selman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sex Determination in the First-Described Sexual Fungus

(2011) Alexander Idnurm   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types

(2010) Sylvain Billiard et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbial Pathogens via Covert Sexual Reproduction

(2010) Joseph Heitman   Cell Host & Microbe

Ste12 and Ste12-Like Proteins, Fungal Transcription Factors Regulating Development and Pathogenicity

(2010) Joanne Wong Sak Hoi et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

The Reduced Genome of the Parasitic Microsporidian Enterocytozoon bieneusi Lacks Genes for Core Carbon Metabolism

(2010) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

AmoebaDB and MicrosporidiaDB: functional genomic resources for Amoebozoa and Microsporidia species

(2010) C. Aurrecoechea et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evolution of the sex-Related Locus and Genomic Features Shared in Microsporidia and Fungi

(2010) Soo Chan Lee et al.   PLoS One

The complete sequence of the smallest known nuclear genome from the microsporidian Encephalitozoon intestinalis

(2010) Nicolas Corradi et al.   Nature Communications

Genetic Interactions Between Transcription Factors Cause Natural Variation in Yeast

(2009) J. Gerke et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2009) Donna E. Akiyoshi et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Draft genome sequence of the Daphnia pathogen Octosporea bayeri: insights into the gene content of a large microsporidian genome and a model for host-parasite interactions

(2009) Nicolas Corradi et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Microsporidia: a journey through radical taxonomical revisions

(2009) Nicolas Corradi et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Microsporidia Evolved from Ancestral Sexual Fungi

(2008) Soo Chan Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY