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Genus of fungi
Nucleophaga
Endolimax nana parasitized by Nucleophaga hypertrophica
Scientific classification
Domain:
Kingdom:
Division:
Microsporidiomycota
Order:
Nucleophagales
Corsaro 2022
Family:
Nucleophagaceae
Corsaro 2022
Genus:
Nucleophaga
Dangeard 1895
Type species
Nucleophaga amoebae Dangeard 1895
Species
See text
Nucleophaga is a
genus of eukaryotic
microorganisms that are internal
parasites of
amoeba ,
flagellates , and
ciliates .
[1]
[2]
Morphology and life cycle
Nucleophaga grows within the
nucleus of its host cell.
[3] Its
spores are ingested by the host and migrate to the nucleus. Once in the nucleus, the spores germinate giving rise to naked plasmodia in contact with the host's karyoplasm. It develops
pseudopodia -like projections that may be involved in
osmotrophy or
phagocytosis . The Nucleophaga cells continue to enlarge until a cell wall replaces the projections and the Nucleophaga cytoplasm is divided into spores.
[4]
Taxonomy
Described by Dangeard in 1895, Nucleophaga was placed in
Olpidiaceae ,
Chytridiales .
[3]
[1] Molecular
phylogenetic studies have placed some members in the
Cryptomycota /
Rozellomycota .
[4]
[5]
Species
As according to a taxonomic summary.
[1]
References
^
a
b
c Blackwell, Will H.; Letcher, Peter M.; Powell, Martha J. (2019). "Review of Nucleophaga (a primitive, 'cryptomycotan' genus): Summary of named and unnamed species, with discussion of contemporary and historical observations". Phytologia . 101 : 1–18.
^ Brumpt, E.; Lavier, G. (2017).
"Sur une Nucleophaga parasite d'Endolimax nana " . Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée . 13 (5): 439–444.
doi :
10.1051/parasite/1935135439 .
ISSN
0003-4150 .
^
a
b Sparrow F.K. (1060). Aquatic Phycomycetes (second ed.). The University of Michigan Press.
^
a
b Corsaro, Daniele; Walochnik, Julia; Venditti, Danielle; Muller, Karl-Dieter; Hauroder, Barbel; Michel, Rolf (2014). "Rediscovery of Nucleophage amoebae , a novel member of the Rozellomycota". Parasitology Research . 113 : 4491–4498.
^ Corsaro, Daniele; Michel, Rolf; Walochnik, Julia; Venditti, Danielle; Muller, Karl-Dieter; Hauroder, Barbel; Wylezich, Claudia (2016). "Molecular identification of Nucelophaga terricolae sp. nov. (Rozellomycota), and new insights on the origin of the Microsporidia". Parasitology Research . 115 : 303–3011.
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