Microsporidia: Eukaryotic Intracellular Parasites Shaped by Gene Loss and Horizontal Gene Transfers

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 167-183

  Corradi, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryptomycota; Gene loss; Horizontal gene transfer; Intracellular parasitism; Microsporidia

Indexed keywords

ENCEPHALITOZOON; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE LOSS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MICROSPORIDIA; MYCOPARASITISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS;

EID: 84945304039     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-091014-104136     Document Type: Review

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