A new class and order
of myxozoans to accommodate parasites of bryozoans with ultrastructural observations on Tetracapsula bryosalmonae (PKX organism).
Cladistic analysis
of myxozoan species with known alternating life - cycles.
Not exact matches
Cartwright said the confirmation that
myxozoans are cnidarians would necessitate the re-classification
of Myxozoa into the phylum Cnidaria.
Not only has the parasitic micro jellyfish evolved a stripped - down body plan
of just a few cells, but via data generated at the KU Medical Center's Genome Sequencing Facility researchers also found the
myxozoan genome was drastically simplified.
Genome sequencing confirms that
myxozoans, a diverse group
of microscopic parasites that infect invertebrate and vertebrate hosts, are actually are «highly reduced» cnidarians — the phylum that includes jellyfish, corals and sea anemones.
Myxobolus Cerebralis is a
myxozoan (a parasite
of aquatic animals) that infected European trout shipped to the United States in the 1950s.
In the paper, the authors write: ′ As the present study shows, the combination
of light microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and three - dimensional confocal laser microscopy, successfully contributed novel information on the structure and morphology
of ceratomyxid parasite stages in the bile, and provided unique insights into parasite composition, cell motility and cytokinesis in
myxozoans, which had not previously been studied.
Ultrastructure
of Buddenbrockia identifies it as a
myxozoan and verifies the bilaterian origin
of the Myxozoa.
The DNA analysis indicates that
myxozoans belong to the phylum
of cnidarians, which includes over 10,000 species like jellyfish, sea anemones and corals.