Development, ultrastructural pathology, and taxonomic revision of the microsporidial genus, Pseudoloma and its type species Pseudoloma neurophilia, in skeletal muscle and nervous tissue of experimentally infected zebrafish Danio rerio

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-48

  Cali, Ann ^a   Kent, Michael ^b   Sanders, Justin ^b   Pau, Cyrilla ^a   Takvorian, Peter M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; life cycle; spinal cord; sporophorous vacuole; xenoma

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; CYPRINID; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INFECTIVITY; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MUSCLE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RNA GENE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIA, UNCLASSIFIED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZEBRAFISH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANIO RERIO; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; PSEUDOLOMA; PSEUDOLOMA NEUROPHILIA;

EID: 84855536000     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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