Microsporidia
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microsporidia-280-17163295
title:
Microsporidia
text:
Microsporidia are a group of spore-forming unicellular parasites. These spores contain an extrusion apparatus that has a coiled polar tube ending in an anchoring disc at the apical part of the spore. They were once considered protozoans or protists, but are now known to be fungi, or a sister group to fungi. These fungal microbes are obligate eukaryotic parasites that use a unique mechanism to infect host cells. They have recently been discovered in a 2017 Cornell study to infect Coleoptera on a
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description:
Phylum of fungi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsporidia
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date modified:
2024-03-29T13:05:52Z
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