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The nucleolus of Giardia and its ribosomal biogenesis
G iardia duodenalis is a protozoan intestinal parasite that causes a significant number of infections worldwide each year, particularly in low-income...
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Mobile group I introns at nuclear rDNA position L2066 harbor sense and antisense homing endonuclease genes intervened by spliceosomal introns
BackgroundMobile group I introns encode homing endonucleases that confer intron mobility initiated by a double-strand break in the intron-lacking...
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Chemical Modifications of Ribosomal RNA
Cellular RNAs in all three kingdoms of life are modified with diverse chemical modifications. These chemical modifications expand the topological...
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Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus L.) as intermediate host for Mesocestoides canislagopodis (Rudolphi, 1810) (Krabbe 1865) in Iceland
Mesocestoides canislagopodis is a common parasite of the arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus ) in Iceland. In the past, household dogs ( Canis familiaris ) and...
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Crossing boundaries of light microscopy resolution discerns novel assemblies in the nucleolus
The nucleolus is the largest membraneless organelle and nuclear body in mammalian cells. It is primarily involved in the biogenesis of ribosomes,...
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First record of Patagifer bilobus (Rudolphi, 1819) Dietz, 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae), with a morphological and molecular characterization from two threskiornithid species in Mexico
Patagifer Dietz, 1909 is a small genus of echinostomatids, with 12 recognized species, mostly parasitising threskiornithid birds, distributed...
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Eimeria zuernii (Eimeriidae: Coccidia): mitochondrial genome and genetic diversity in the Chinese yak
BackgroundCoccidiosis caused by Eimeria zuernii (Eimeriidae: Coccidia) represents a significant economic threat to the bovine industry....
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The first records of Spirometra erinaceieuropaei (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidae), a causative agent of human sparganosis, in Latvian wildlife
Diphyllobothriid tapeworms of the genus Spirometra are causative agents of sparganosis, food-borne zoonotic parasitic disease. They have been...
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Impact of Genome Reduction in Microsporidia
Microsporidia represent an evolutionary outlier in the tree of life and occupy the extreme edge of the eukaryotic domain with some of their...
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New records of three commercial fish hosts for two Unicapsula spp. and Kudoa megacapsula (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Multivalvulida)
Infections caused by multivalvulid myxosporeans belonging to genera Unicapsula and Kudoa (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) occasionally affect commercial marine...
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Molecular and statistical approaches to the delimitation of Eimeriidae species: a case of extreme polymorphism in eimerian oocysts from the plumbeous pigeon Patagioenas plumbea (Vieillot, 1818) (Columbiformes) in South America
The current work aimed to analyze, morphologically, statistically, and molecularly, oocysts shed from plumbeous pigeons, Patagioenas plumbea ...
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Molecular Characterization of a New Nosema bombycis Strain Detected in Iranian Silkworm Farms
PurposePebrine as the most dangerous disease of silkworm mostly caused by Nosema species has caused huge economic losses. There is no information on...
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Putative Group I Introns in the Nuclear Internal Transcribed Spacer of the Basidiomycete Fungus Gautieria Vittad
AbstractGroup I introns are self-splicing ribozymes that insert into protein and RNA coding genes. In ribosomal RNA genes, group I introns can...
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Kudoa rousseauxii n. sp. (Cnidaria: Multivalvulida) Infects the Skeletal Muscles of the Freshwater Fish Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii in the Amazon River
PurposeMembers of the genus Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 are known to infect the muscles of commercially important fishes worldwide, including those in the...
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Mitochondrial genome of Theileria uilenbergi endemic in sheep and goats in China
Mitochondrial genomes provide new insights that help elucidating biological features, genetic evolution, and classification of protozoans. Theileria...
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First report of three multivalvulid species (Cnidaria: Myxozoa: Myxosporea) in commercial fishes from Java Sea, Indonesia, with records of Unicapsula pyramidata and two new Kudoa spp.
Commercial marine fishes caught locally in East Java, Indonesia, were examined for multivalvulid myxosporeans (Cnidaria: Myxozoa: Myxosporea)....
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Parvicapsula pseudobranchicola in the northeast Pacific Ocean is rare in farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar despite widespread occurrence and pathology in wild Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp.
BackgroundInfection with the myxozoan parasite Parvicapsula pseudobranchicola causes disease in wild and farmed salmonids in Norway. In the...
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Descriptions of Three New Species and New Host or Distribution Records of Five Species of the Genus Kudoa (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) in Commercial Fishes Collected from South China Sea
PurposeMyxosporeans of the genera Kudoa and Unicapsula (Cnidaria: Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) may be causative agents of diseases that...
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Multivalvulidan myxosporeans from marine fishes in Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam, with descriptions of Kudoa igori n. sp. and Kudoa borimiri n. sp. from mullets
In March and April 2018, we carried out a survey of myxosporean parasites in coastal fishes collected from Nha Trang Bay in Vietnam’s East Sea. Of...
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The morphological and molecular characterization of Baylisascaris devosi Sprent, 1952 (Ascaridoidea, Nematoda), collected from Pine marten (Martes martes) in Iran
BackgroundBaylisascaris devosi is an intestinal nematode found in several carnivores including fisher, wolverine, Beech marten, American marten and...
