Sentences with phrase «of microsporidia»

When they discovered a new parasite in water fleas a couple of years ago, they classified this undescribed species as a microsporidium, mostly because it possessed the unique harpoon - like infection apparatus (the polar - tube), one of the hallmarks of microsporidia.

With the help of scientists in Sweden and the U.S., the Basel researchers rewrote the evolutionary history of microsporidia.

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... The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium, giardia lamblia, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus, human papilloma virus, isospora belli, microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis type B & C, syphilis.

The analysis of the entire genome had several surprises in store for them: The genome resembles more that of a fungi than a microsporidium and, in addition, also has a mitochondrial genome.

Electronmicroscopic picture of the spores of the newly discovered microsporidium M. daphniae.

The research group lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Basel has now discovered the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites, the microsporidia, has evolved.

«Our results are not only a milestone for the research on microsporidia, but they are also of great interest to the study of parasite - specific adaptations in evolution in general,» explains Ebert the findings.

Nematocida parisii, a newly discovered species of the protozoan parasites known as microsporidia, lives in the intestines of C. elegans, a small roundworm commonly used for research.

After recognizing microsporidia as members of the fungal kingdom with all its elaborate metabolic tricks and lifestyles, biologists could see that microsporidia had been more complex at one time, but eventually lost fancy traits.

Examining a handful of genes, Keeling and other researchers demonstrated that the single - gene tree had put microsporidia in the wrong kingdom.