Parasite journal club: Myxozoans

This week we will discuss another weird group of parasites within the opisthokonts, the myxozoans. They are a strange group of microscopic sized metazoans related to the Cnidaria, and are found in aquatic habitats where they act as parasites of fish, amphibians, reptiles and rarely invertebrates.

Time and place: Nov. 7, 2014 10:15 AM, Room 4212

If you want to be on the mail-list for this parasite journal club (mostly protistan parasites) that runs every week, contact Marit Bjorbækmo.

Hope to see you!

The papers for this week:

Mackenzie, K. and C. Kalavati (2014). "Myxosporean parasites of marine fishes: their distribution in the world's oceans." Parasitology 141(13): 1709-1717.

Hartikainen, H., A. Gruhl and B. Okamura (2014). "Diversification and repeated morphological transitions in endoparasitic cnidarians (Myxozoa: Malacosporea)." Mol Phylogenet Evol 76: 261-269.

Published Nov. 6, 2014 10:39 AM - Last modified July 31, 2019 1:21 PM