Guoqing Pan, Jialing Bao, Zhengang Ma, Yue Song, Bing Han, Maoshuang Ran, Chunfeng Li, Zeyang Zhou
Microsporidia are a group of fungi-like intracellular and unicellular parasites, which infect nearly all animals. As the "master parasites", more than 1400 microsporidian species were described. Microsporidia infections in economical invertebrates (e.g., silkworm, shrimp) caused huge losses, while other microsporidia infections in daphnia, nematode, locust, honeybee and mosquito play important roles in the regulation of their population size. Researches on the invertebrate host responses to Microsporidia infections obtained plenty of interesting results, especially in the innate immune response to these pathogens...
February 8, 2018: Developmental and Comparative Immunology