Targeting of host cell lineages by vertically transmitted, feminising microsporidia

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 749-756

  Weedall, Robert T ^a   Robinson, Michael ^b   Smith, Judith E ^a   Dunn, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Arts   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dictyocoela duebenum; Embryogenesis; Gammarus duebeni; Microsporidia; Nosema granulosis; Sex ratio distorter; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMINIZATION; HOST; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOCOELA DUEBENUM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMMARUS; GERM LINE; GONAD; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROSPORIDA; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA GRANULOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TESTICULAR FEMINIZATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ZYGOTE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOSEMA; SEX RATIO;

CRUSTACEA; DICTYOCOELA DUEBENUM; GAMMARUS DUEBENI; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA GRANULOSIS;

EID: 33744970041     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.02.020     Document Type: Article

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