Marcin K Dziuba, Kristina M McIntire, Kensuke Seto, Elizabeth S Davenport, Mary A Rogalski, Camden D Gowler, Emma Baird, Megan Vaandrager, Cristian Huerta, Riley Jaye, Fiona E Corcoran, Alicia Withrow, Steven Ahrendt, Asaf Salamov, Matt Nolan, Sravanthi Tejomurthula, Kerrie Barry, Igor V Grigoriev, Timothy Y James, Meghan A Duffy
UNLABELLED: The impacts of microsporidia on host individuals are frequently subtle and can be context dependent. A key example of the latter comes from a recently discovered microsporidian symbiont of Daphnia , the net impact of which was found to shift from negative to positive based on environmental context. Given this, we hypothesized low baseline virulence of the microsporidian; here, we investigated the impact of infection on hosts in controlled conditions and the absence of other stressors...
April 23, 2024: MBio