Microsporidia in aquatic microcrustacea: The copepod microsporidium Marssoniella elegans Lemmermann, 1900 revisited

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 163-172

  Vávra, Jiří ^a,b   Hyliš, Miroslav ^b   Oborník, Miroslav ^a   Vossbrinck, Charles R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclops vicinus; Marssoniella; Microsporidia; Phylogeny; Trichoptera; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; CYCLOPIA; CYCLOPS VICINUS; INSECTA; MARSSONIELLA; MARSSONIELLA ELEGANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 20444436016     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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