Microsporidia and ‘The Art of Living Together’

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 253-319

  Vávra, Jiří ^a,b   Lukeš, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Animal parasites; Fungi; Host parasite relationships; Infection by injection; Intracellular parasitism; Microsporidia; Phylogeny; Protista; Spore germination

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME; SPORE GERMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS;

EID: 84883744765     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407706-5.00004-6     Document Type: Chapter

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