Search Results - "Radek, Renate"
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Mattesia cf. geminata, an ant-pathogenic neogregarine (Apicomplexa: Lipotrophidae) in two Temnothorax species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Published in Parasitology research (1987) (01-07-2023)“…An ant-pathogenic neogregarine in Temnothorax affinis and T. parvulus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is described based on morphological and ultrastructural…”
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Characteristic Light and Electron Microscopic Features of Adelina melolonthae, a Coccidian Pathogen of the European Cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha (Coleoptera/Scarabaeidae)
Published in Acta parasitologica (01-09-2021)“…Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate and document the characteristic electron microscopic features of the oocyst of Adelina melolonthae, a…”
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Long rDNA amplicon sequencing of insect-infecting nephridiophagids reveals their affiliation to the Chytridiomycota and a potential to switch between hosts
Published in Scientific reports (11-01-2021)“…Nephridiophagids are unicellular eukaryotes that parasitize the Malpighian tubules of numerous insects. Their life cycle comprises multinucleate vegetative…”
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Early-diverging fungal phyla: taxonomy, species concept, ecology, distribution, anthropogenic impact, and novel phylogenetic proposals
Published in Fungal diversity (2021)“…The increasing number of new fungal species described from all over the world along with the use of genetics to define taxa, has dramatically changed the…”
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Defensive behavior is linked to altered surface chemistry following infection in a termite society
Published in Scientific reports (23-11-2023)“…The care-kill response determines whether a sick individual will be treated or eliminated from an insect society, but little is known about the…”
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'Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis', an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep-branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-09-2016)“…Summary Termite gut flagellates are typically colonized by specific bacterial symbionts. Here we describe the phylogeny, ultrastructure and subcellular…”
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New nephridiophagid genera (Fungi, Chytridiomycota) in a mallow beetle and an earwig
Published in MycoKeys (Sofia, Bulgaria) (22-12-2023)“…Nephridiophagids are unicellular fungi (Chytridiomycota) that infect the Malpighian tubules of insects. Most species have been found in cockroach hosts and…”
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New insights into the coevolutionary history of termites and their gut flagellates: Description of Retractinympha glossotermitis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Retractinymphidae fam. nov.)
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (26-01-2023)“…Lower termites harbor diverse consortia of symbiotic gut flagellates. Despite numerous evidence for co-cladogenesis, the evolutionary history of these…”
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"Endomicrobia": Cytoplasmic Symbionts of Termite Gut Protozoa Form a Separate Phylum of Prokaryotes
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-03-2005)“…Lignocellulose digestion by wood-feeding termites depends on the mutualistic interaction of unusual, flagellate protists located in their hindgut. Most of the…”
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Exclusive Gut Flagellates of Serritermitidae Suggest a Major Transfaunation Event in Lower Termites: Description of Heliconympha glossotermitis gen. nov. spec. nov
Published in The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology (01-01-2018)“…The guts of lower termites are inhabited by host‐specific consortia of cellulose‐digesting flagellate protists. In this first investigation of the symbionts of…”
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First record of the entomopathogenic protist, Mattesia dispora (Neogregarinorida: Lipotrophidae) of the Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Turkey
Published in Egyptian journal of biological pest control (02-12-2019)“…The present study is the first record of a natural neogregarine infection of Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Turkey. The infection…”
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Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and Bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae)
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-08-2010)“…The surface of many termite gut flagellates is colonized with a dense layer of bacteria, yet little is known about the evolutionary relationships of such…”
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Notes for genera: basal clades of Fungi (including Aphelidiomycota, Basidiobolomycota, Blastocladiomycota, Calcarisporiellomycota, Caulochytriomycota, Chytridiomycota, Entomophthoromycota, Glomeromycota, Kickxellomycota, Monoblepharomycota, Mortierellomycota, Mucoromycota, Neocallimastigomycota, Olpidiomycota, Rozellomycota and Zoopagomycota)
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Natural occurrence of microsporidia infecting Lepidoptera in Bulgaria
Published in Acta parasitologica (20-12-2017)“…We examined 34 lepidopteran species belonging to 12 families to determine presence and prevalence of microsporidian pathogens. The insects were collected from…”
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‘ Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans’, an intracellular bacterial pathogen of the cockroach Blatta orientalis (Insecta: Blattodea)
Published in Systematic and applied microbiology (01-04-2007)“…The genus Rickettsiella comprises various intracellular bacterial pathogens of arthropods, exhibiting a chlamydia-like developmental cycle. Species may be…”
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On the Enigmatic Hook of the Metaradiophryids (Alveolata, Ciliophora)
Published in Acta Protozoologica (01-01-2016)“…The astomatous metaradiophryids are ciliates which live endosymbiotically in earthworms (Annelida, Lumbricidae). Their prominent hook apparatus is demonstrated…”
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Spirochaeta coccoides sp. nov., a Novel Coccoid Spirochete from the Hindgut of the Termite Neotermes castaneus
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2006)“…A novel spirochete strain, SPN1, was isolated from the hindgut contents of the termite Neotermes castaneus. The highest similarities (about 90%) of the strain…”
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Morphologic and molecular data help adopting the insect-pathogenic nephridiophagids (Nephridiophagidae) among the early diverging fungal lineages, close to the Chytridiomycota
Published in MycoKeys (Sofia, Bulgaria) (10-07-2017)“…Nephridiophagids are poorly known unicellular eukaryotes, previously of uncertain systematic position, that parasitize the Malpighian tubules of insects. Their…”
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Nosema pieriae sp. n. (Microsporida, Nosematidae): A New Microsporidian Pathogen of the Cabbage Butterfly Pieris brassicae L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)
Published in Acta Protozoologica (01-01-2014)“…A new microsporidian pathogen of the cabbage butterfl y, Pieris brassicae is described based on light microscopy, ultrastructural characteristics and…”
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Phylogeny and Ultrastructure of Oxymonas jouteli, a Rostellum-free Species, and Opisthomitus longiflagellatus sp. nov., Oxymonadid Flagellates from the Gut of Neotermes jouteli
Published in Protist (01-05-2014)“…The biodiversity of oxymonadid flagellates in termite hindguts is not fully explored. Many species have been differentiated only by morphological features, and…”
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