Glugea
Appearance
Glugea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Phylum: | Rozellomycota |
Class: | Microsporidea |
Order: | Glugeida |
Family: | Glugeidae |
Genus: | Glugea |
Glugea is a genus of microsporidian parasites, predominantly infecting fish.
Phylogram of some species of Glugea[1]:
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Other species include:
- Glugea capverdensis – a parasite of the spotted lanternfish
- Glugea caulleryi – a parasite of the greater sand eel
- Glugea heraldi – a parasite of the seahorse Hippocampus erectus
- Glugea hertwigi – a parasite of the smelts Osmerus eperlanus and Osmerus mordax
- Glugea merluccii – a parasite of the fish argentine hake
- Glugea nagelia – a parasite of the yellowfin hind[2]
- Glugea plecoglossi
- Glugea sardinellensis – a parasite of fish of the genus Sardinella[3]
- Glugea shiplei – a parasite of fish of the genus Trisopterus
- Glugea vincentiae – a parasite of the Australian marine teleost fish, Vincentia conspersa
- Glugea weissenbergi
References
- ^ Pomport-Castillon, C.; De Jonckheere, J. F.; Romestand, B. (2000). "Ribosomal DNA sequences of Glugea anomala, G. stephani, G. americanus and Spraguea lophii (Microsporidia):phylogenetic reconstruction". Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 40: 125–129. doi:10.3354/dao040125.
- ^ Abdel-Baki, A.-A. S.; Al-Quraishy, S.; Rocha, S.; Dkhil, M. A.; Casal, G.; Azevedo, C. (2015). "Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Glugea nagelia sp. n. (Microsporidia: Glugeidae), infecting the intestinal wall of the yellowfin hind, Cephalopholis hemistiktos (Actinopterygii: Serranidae), from the Red Sea". Folia Parasitologica. 62. doi:10.14411/fp.2015.007. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 25960551.
- ^ Mansour, L.; Thabet, A.; Harrath, A. H.; Y. Al Omar, S.; Mukhtar, A.; R. Sayed, S.; Abdel-Baki, A.-A. Sh. (2016). "New microsporidia, Glugea sardinellensis n sp (Microsporea, Glugeida) found in Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847, collected off Tunisian coasts". Acta Protozoologica. 55 (4). doi:10.4467/16890027AP.16.028.6097.