Morphological and molecular investigations of Tubulinosema ratisbonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. (microsporidia: tubulinosematidae fam. nov.), a parasite infecting a laboratory colony of Drosophila melanogaster (diptera: drosophilidae)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-152

  Franzen, Caspar ^a   Fischer, Susanne ^b   Schroeder, Josef ^b   Schölmerich, Jürgen ^a   Schneuwly, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nosema; Parasite; rRNA; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLY; LIFE CYCLE; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHIOLA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; NOSEMA; NOSEMA BOMBYCIS; TUBULINOSEMA; TUBULINOSEMA ACRIDOPHAGUS; TUBULINOSEMA KINGI; TUBULINOSEMA RATISBONENSIS; TUBULINOSEMATIDAE;

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOSEMA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LABORATORIES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSEMA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 21844447402     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.04-3324.x     Document Type: Article

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