Global InformationNephridiophaga information
| Nephridiophaga | |
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| Nephridiophaga blattellae, 10–13 transmission electron microscopy, 14 Calcofluor white staining. 10 Meront with several nuclei (n) and mitochondria (mi) in the lumen of Malpighian tubule. Inset: Mitochondrium with tubular to sac-like cristae. 11 Sporogenic plasmodium containing mature spores (sp), mitochondria (mi), and vegetative nuclei (n) in the cytoplasm. The plasmodium is anchored to the microvilli (mv) of epithelial cells (ep) of the tubule. 12 Young spore within the cytoplasm of a sporogenic plasmodium, surrounded by a layer of vesicles. The spore cytoplasm contains one nucleus (n), mitochondria (mi), and endoplasmic reticulum (er). 13 An infectious sporoplasm hatches through the central spore opening, leaving behind the spore wall of the emptying spore (sp). The nucleus (n) is squeezed through the tiny spore opening. 14 Calcofluor white stains the spore wall indicating the presence of chitin (bluish color). Scale bars: 1 µm (10–13), inset 0.1 µm (10), 5 µm (14) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi
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| Division: | Chytridiomycota
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| Class: | incertae sedis
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| Order: | Nephridiophagales
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| Family: | incertae sedis
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| Genus: | Nephridiophaga Ivanić 1937
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| Type species | |
| Nepharidiophaga apis Ivanic 1937
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Nephridiophaga is a genus of single cell eukaryotes, now considered to be fungi, that pathogenically inhabit the Malpighian tubules of insects.[1][2] Ivanic described the type species from honey bees.[2]
- ^ Woolever, Patricia (1966). "Life history and electron microscopy of a haplosporidian, Nephridiophaga blattellae (Crawley) n. comb., in the Malphigian tubulues of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.)". Journal of Protozoology. 13 (4): 622–642. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1966.tb01973.x.
- ^ a b Radek, Renate; Wurzbacher, Christian; Gisder, Sebastian; Nilsson, R. Henrick; Owerfeldt, Anja; Genersch, Elke; Kirk, Paul K.; Voigt, Kerstin (2017). "Morphologic and molecular data help adopting the insect-pathogenic nephridiophagids (Nephridiophagidae) among the early diverging fungal lineages, close to the Chytridiomycota" (PDF). MycoKeys. 25: 31–50. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.25.12446.