Phylogenetic position of Amblyospora Hazard and Oldacre (Microspora: Amblyosporidae) based on small subunit rRNA data and its implication for the evolution of the microsporidia

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 220-225

  Baker, Michael D ^a   Vossbrinck, Charles R ^b   Becnel, James J ^c   Maddox, Joseph V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agric Exp Station ^*  (United States)

^c CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Life Cycle; Nosema; Parsimony; Thelohania

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOSPORA; AMBLYOSPORA CALIFORNICA; AMBLYOSPORA SP.; AMBLYOSPORIDAE; ANIMALIA; CULEX SALINARIUS; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; THELOHANIA;

EID: 0031149809     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1997.tb05704.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Andreadis, T. G. 1985. Experimental transmission of a microsporidian pathogen from mosquito to an alternate copepod host. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 82:5574-5577.
2. Andreadis, T. G. & Hall, D. W. 1979. Development, ultrastructure, and mode of transmission of Amblyospora sp. (Microspora: Thelohaniidae) in the mosquito. J. Protozool., 26:444-452.
3. Baker, M. D., Vossbrinck, C. R., Maddox, J. V. & Undeen, A. H. 1994. Phylogenetic relationships among Vairimorpha and Nosema species (Microspora) based on ribosomal RNA sequence data. J. Invertebr. Pathol., 64:100-106.
4. Baker, M. D., Vossbrinck, C. R., Didier, E. S., Maddox, J. V. & Shadduck, J. A. 1995. Small subunit ribosomal DNA phylogeny of various microsporidia with emphasis on AIDS related forms. J. Euk, Microbiol., 42:564-570.
5. Becnel, J. J. 1992. Horizontal transmission and subsequent development of Amblyospora californica (Microsporida: Amblyosporidae) in the intermediate and definitive hosts. Dis. Aquat. Org., 13:17-28.
6. Felsenstein, J. 1993. PHYLIP: phylogeny inference package, version 3.5c. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
7. Fitch, W. M. and Margoliash, E. 1967. Construction of phylogenetic trees. Science, 155:279-284.
8. Hazard, E. I. and Brookbank, J. W. 1984. Karyogamy and meiosis in an Amblyospora sp. (Microspora) in the mosquito Culex salinarius. J. Invertebr. Pathol., 44:3-11.
9. Hazard, E. I. and Oldacre, S. W. 1975. Revision of Microsporidia (Protozoa) close to Thelohania, with descriptions of one new family, eight new genera and thirteen new species. U.S. Dept. Agric. Tech. Bull. No. 1530, p. 104.
10. Hesse, E. 1935. Sur quelques microsporidies parasites de Megacyclops viridis Jurine. Arch. Zool. Exp. Gen., 75:651-661.
11. Issi, I. V. 1986. Microsporidia as a phylum of parasitic protozoa. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R. (Leningrad), 10:6-136.
12. Larsson, J. I. R. 1981. A new microsporidium Berwaldia singularis gen. et sp. nov. from Daphnia pulex and a survey of microsporidia described form Cladocera. Parasitology, 38:325-342.
13. Larsson, J. I. R. 1986. Ultrastructure, function, and classification of microsporidia. Progr. Protistol., 1:325-390.
14. Larsson, J. I. R. & Yan, N. D. 1988. The ultrastructural cytology and taxonomy of Dubosquia sidae, with establishment of the new genus Agglomerata gen. nov. Arch. Protistenkd., 135:271-288.
15. Loubes, C. & Akbarieh, M. 1978. Êtude ultrastructurale de la microsporidie Baculea daphniae n. g., n. sp., parasite de l'epithélium intestinal de Daphnia pulex Leydig, 1860 (Crustace, Cladocere). Protistologica, 14:23-38.
16. Maurand, J., Fize, A., Fenwick, B. & Michel, R. 1971. Êtude au microscope électronique de Nosema infirmum Kudo, 1921, microsporidie parasite d'un copépode cyclopoïde; création du genre nouveau Tuzetia a propos de cette espece. Protistologica, 7:221-225.
17. Mitchell, M. J. & Cali, A. 1993. Ultrastructural study of the development of Vairimorpha necatrix (Kramer, 1965) (Protozoa, Microsporida) in larvae of the corn earworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with emphasis on sporogony. J. Euk. Microbiol., 40:701-710.
18. Olsen, G. J., Matsuda, H., Hagstrom, R. & Overbeek, R. 1994. FASTDNAML a tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences using maximum likelihood. CABIOS, 10:41-48.
19. Pilley, B. M. 1976. A new genus, Vairimorpha (Protozoa: Microsporida), for Nosema necatris Kramer, 1965: pathogenicity and life cycle in Spodoptera exempta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J. Invertebr. Pathol., 28:177-183.
20. Poisson, R. 1953. Ordre des Microsporidies. In: Grassé, P. P. (ed.), Traité de Zoologie. Masson et Cie, Paris. Pp. 1042-1070.
21. Saitou, N. and Nei, M. 1987. The neighbor joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Molec. Biol. & Evol., 4:406-425.
22. Sprague, V. 1977. Classification and phylogeny of the microsporidia. In: L. A. Bulla and T. C. Cheng. (ed.), Comparative Pathobiology Vol. 2, Plenum, New York. Pp. 2-30.
23. Sprague, V. 1978. Characterization and Composition on the genus Nosema. Misc. Publ. Ent. Soc. Amer., 11:5-16.
24. Sprague, V., Becnel, J. & Hazard, E. I. 1992. Taxonomy of the phylum Microspora. Crit. Rev. Microbiol., 18:285-395.
25. Sweeney, A. W., Hazard, E. I., and Graham, M. F. 1985. Intermediate host for an Amblyospora sp. (Microspora) infecting the mosquito Culex annulirostris. J. Invertebr. Pathol., 46:98-102.
26. Swofford, D. L. 1993 PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, version 3.1.1. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL.
27. Voronin, V. N. 1989. The ultrastructure of Lanatospora macrocyclopis (Protozoa, Microsporida) from the Cyclope Macrocyclops albidus (Jur.) (Crustacea, Copepoda). Arch. Protistenkd., 137:357-366.
28. Vossbrinck, C. R., Baker, M. D., Didier, E. S., Debrunner-Vossbrinck, B. A. & Shadduck, J. A. 1993. Ribosomal DNA sequences of Encephalitozoon hellem and Encephalitozoon cuniculi: Species identification and phylogenetic construction. J. Euk. Microbiol., 40:354-362.
29. Vossbrinck, C. R., Maddox, J. V., Friedman, S., Debrunner-Vossbrinck, B. A. & Woese, C. R. 1987. Ribosomal RNA sequence suggests microsporidia are extremely ancient eukaryotes. Nature (London), 326: 411-414.
30. Weiser, J. 1977. Contribution to the classification of microsporidia. Vestn. Cesk. Spol. Zool., 41:308-320.
31. Zhu, X., Wittner, M., Tanowitz, H. B., Cali, A. & Weiss, L. M. 1994. Ribosomal RNA sequences of Enterocytozoon bieneusi, Septata intestinalis, and Ameson michaelis: Phylogenetic construction and structural correspondence. J. Euk. Microbiol., 41:204-209.