Revisiting the phylogeny of microsporidia

The diversity of microsporidian parasites infecting the Holarctic amphipod Gammarus lacustris from the Baikal region is dominated by the genus Dictyocoela

(2020) Polina Drozdova et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Evolution of microsporidia: An extremely successful group of eukaryotic intracellular parasites

(2020) Lina Wadi et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Root of the Tree: The Significance, Evolution, and Origins of the Ribosome

(2020) Jessica C. Bowman et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula

(2020) Ana L. d. F. Lacerda et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Energy metabolism and its evolution in Microsporidia and allied taxa

(2020) Sergey Timofeev et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

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

(2020) Hala Tamim El Jarkass et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Shared geographic histories and dispersal contribute to congruent phylogenies between amphipods and their microsporidian parasites at regional and global scales

(2020) Eunji Park et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ultimate opportunists—The emergent Enterocytozoon group Microsporidia

(2019) Grant D. Stentiford et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A formal redefinition of the genera Nosema and Vairimorpha (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and reassignment of species based on molecular phylogenetics

(2019) Yuri S. Tokarev et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Clarifying the Relationships between Microsporidia and Cryptomycota

(2018) David Bass et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Group-specific environmental sequencing reveals high levels of ecological heterogeneity across the microsporidian radiation

(2018) Bryony A. P. Williams et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Europe-wide reassessment of Dictyocoela (Microsporidia) infecting native and invasive amphipods (Crustacea): molecular versus ultrastructural traits

(2018) Karolina Bacela-Spychalska et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolutionary genomics of Metchnikovella incurvata (Metchnikovellidae), an early branching microsporidium

(2018) Luis Javier Galindo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Molecular and structural assessment of microsporidia infecting daphnids: The “obtusa-like” microsporidia, a branch of the monophyletic Agglomeratidae clade, with the establishment of a new genus Conglomerata

(2018) Jiří Vávra et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Filling gaps in the microsporidian tree: rDNA phylogeny of Chytridiopsis typographi (Microsporidia: Chytridiopsida)

(2018) Daniele Corsaro et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

A Microsporidian Infection in Phoronids (Phylum Phoronida): Microsporidium phoronidi n. sp. from a Phoronis embryolabi

(2017) Elena N. Temereva et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

The genome of an intranuclear parasite, Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae, reveals alternative adaptations to obligate intracellular parasitism

(2017) C Alisha Quandt et al.   eLife

First record of Tetramicra brevifilum in lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus, L.)

(2016) F Scholz et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES

Microsporidia Alfvenia sibirica sp. n. and Agglomerata cladocera (Pfeiffer) 1895, from Siberian microcrustaceans and phylogenetic relationships within the “Aquatic outgroup” lineage of fresh water microsporidia

(2016) Y.Y. Sokolova et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Hyperspora aquatica n.gn., n.sp. (Microsporidia), hyperparasitic in Marteilia cochillia (Paramyxida), is closely related to crustacean-infecting microspordian taxa

(2016) G. D. STENTIFORD et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Horizontally acquired genes in early-diverging pathogenic fungi enable the use of host nucleosides and nucleotides

(2016) William G. Alexander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microsporidia – Emergent Pathogens in the Global Food Chain

(2016) G.D. Stentiford et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Microsporidia: Why Make Nucleotides if You Can Steal Them?

(2016) Paul Dean et al.   PLoS Pathogens

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Microsporidia-like parasites of amoebae belong to the early fungal lineage Rozellomycota

(2014) Daniele Corsaro et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Rediscovery of Nucleophaga amoebae, a novel member of the Rozellomycota

(2014) Daniele Corsaro et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Evolution of a morphological novelty occurred before genome compaction in a lineage of extreme parasites

(2014) K. L. Haag et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plasma Membrane-Located Purine Nucleotide Transport Proteins Are Key Components for Host Exploitation by Microsporidian Intracellular Parasites

(2014) Eva Heinz et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Morphology, phylogeny, and ecology of the aphelids (Aphelidea, Opisthokonta) and proposal for the new superphylum Opisthosporidia

(2014) Sergey A. Karpov et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Shared Signatures of Parasitism and Phylogenomics Unite Cryptomycota and Microsporidia

(2013) Timothy Y. James et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution

(2013) D. M. de Vienne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Microsporidia: diverse, dynamic, and emergent pathogens in aquatic systems

(2013) Grant D. Stentiford et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Microsporidian Infection in a Free-Living Marine Nematode

(2012) A. M. Ardila-Garcia et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Plastic parasites: Extreme dimorphism creates a taxonomic conundrum in the phylum Microsporidia

(2012) G.D. Stentiford et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Ultrastructural and molecular studies of Microgemma carolinus n. sp. (Microsporidia), a parasite of the fish Trachinotus carolinus (Carangidae) in Southern Brazil

(2012) G. CASAL et al.   PARASITOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultrastructural characterization and comparative phylogenetic analysis of new microsporidia from Siberian mosquitoes: Evidence for coevolution and host switching

(2011) Theodore G. Andreadis et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life

(2011) Meredith D. M. Jones et al.   NATURE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cophylogeny of Nosema (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Suggests Both Cospeciation and a Host-switch

(2009) Aaron B. A. Shafer et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

The Environmental Clade LKM11 and Rozella Form the Deepest Branching Clade of Fungi

(2009) Enrique Lara et al.   PROTIST

Euplotespora binucleatan. gen., n. sp. (Protozoa: Microsporidia), a Parasite Infecting the Hypotrichous CiliateEuplotes woodruffi, with Observations on Microsporidian Infections in Ciliophora

(2008) SERGEI I. FOKIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi

(2008) Anastasios D. Tsaousis et al.   NATURE