Small subunit rDNA phylogeny of bacillidium sp.(Microspora, Mrazekiidae) infecting oligochaets

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 553-558

  Nilsen, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacillidium; Microspora; Molecular phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; MICROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANNELIDA; BACILLIDIUM SP.; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MRAZEKIIDAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033024728     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099004333     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Baker, M. D., Vossbrinck, C. R., Becnel, J. J. & Maddox J. V. (1997). Phylogenetical position of Amblyospora Hazard & Oldacre (Microspora: Amblyosporidae) based on small subunit rRNA data and its implication for the evolution of the microsporidia. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 44, 220-225.
2. 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. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 42, 564-570.
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. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 64, 100-106.
4. Becnel, J. (1994). Life cycles and host-parasite relationships of microsporidia in culicine mosquitoes. Folia Parasitologia 41, 91-96.
5. Canning, E. U. (1990). Phylum Microspora. In Handbook of Protoctista (ed. Margulis, L., Chapman, D. Melkonian, M. & Corliss, J. O.), pp. 53-72. Jones and Bartlett, Boston.
6. Felsenstein, J. (1981). Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach. Journal of Molecular Evolution 17, 368-376.
7. Felsenstein, J. (1993). PHYLIP: Phylogeny Inference Package, version 3.572c.
8. Götz, P. (1981). Homology of the manubrium of Mrazekia brevicauda and the polar filament of other microsporidia. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 64 321-333.
9. Issi, I. V. (1986). Microsporidia as a phylum of parasitic protozoa. Academia Sciencia U.S.S.R. (Leningrad) 10 6-136.
10. Larsson, R. (1986). Ultrastructure, function, and classification of microsporidia. In Progress in Protistology (ed. Corliss, J. O. & Patterson, D. J.) pp. 325-390. Biopress, Bristol.
11. Larsson, R. (1994). Characteristics of the genus Bacillidium Janada, 1928 (Microspora, Mrazekiidae) - reinvestigation of the type of species B. criodrili and improved diagnosis of the genus. European Journal of Protistology 30, 85-96.
12. Larsson, R. (1989). Light and electronmicroscope studies on Jirovecia involuta sp. nov. (Microspora Bacillidae), a new microsporidian parasite of oligochaetes in Sweden. European Journal of Protistology 25, 172-181.
13. Larsson, R. (1990). On the cytology of Jirovecia caudata (Léger and Hesse, 1916) (Microspora, Bacillidae). European Journal of Protistology 25, 321-330.
14. Larsson, R. & Götz, P. (1996). Ultrastructural evidence for the systematic position of Jirovecia brevicauda (Léger et Hesse, 1916) Weisser, 1985 (Microspora Mrazekiidae). European Journal of Protistology 32 366-371.
15. Nei, M. (1996). Phylogenetic analysis in molecular evolutionary genetics. Annual Review of Genetics 30 371-403.
16. Nilsen, F., Endresen, C. & Hordvik, I. (1998). Molecular phylogeny of microsporidians with particular reference to species that infect the muscles of fish. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 45, 529-537.
17. Olsen, G. J., Matsuda, H., Hagstrom, R. & Overbeek, R. (1995). fast DNA ml: A tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences using maximum likelihood. Computational Applied Bioscience 10, 41-48.
18. Sprague, V., Becnel, J. J. & Hazard, E. I. (1992). Taxonomy of the Phylum Microspora. Critical Reviews in Microbiology 18, 285-395.
19. Swofford, D. L. (1993). PAUP: Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony. Version 3.1.1. Computer program distributed by Illinois Natural History Survey Champaign, Illinois.
20. Van de Peer, Y., Nicolai, S., De Rijk, P. & De Wachter R. (1996). Database on the structure of small ribosomal subunit rRNA. Nucleic Acids Research 24, 86-91.
21. Van de Peer, Y., Van den Broeck, I., De Rijk, P. & De Wachter, R. (1994). Database on the structure of small ribosomal subunit RNA. Nucleic Acids Research 22, 3488-3494.
22. Weiser, J. (1977). Contribution to the classification of Microsporidia. Vestnik Ceskoslovenska Spolecnost Zoologicka 4, 308-320.