Widespread infection, diversification and old host associations of Nosema Microsporidia in European freshwater gammarids (Amphipoda).

ABSTRACT: The microsporidian genus Nosema is primarily known to infect insects of economic importance stimulating high research interest, while other hosts remain understudied. Nosema granulosis is one of the formally described Nosema species infecting amphipod crustaceans, being known to infect only two host species. Our first aim was to characterize Nosema spp. infections in different amphipod species from various European localities using the small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU) marker. Second, we aimed to assess the phylogenetic diversity, host specificity and to explore the evolutionary history that may explain the diversity of gammarid-infecting Nosema lineages by performing a phylogenetic reconstruction based on RNA polymerase II subunit B1 (RPB1) gene sequences. For the host species Gammarus ba

SUBMITTER: Bacela-Spychalska K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10470943 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature