Journal
MYCOKEYS
Volume -, Issue 25, Pages 31-50Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.25.12446
Keywords
Cryptomycota; entomoparasitic; entomopathogenic; Fungi; Haplosporidia; Microsporidia; Molecular phylogeny; protozoa; Rozellomycota; small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU, 18S); spore morphology
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- Marie Sklodowska-Curie post doc grant [660122]
- Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne foundation
- Birgit och Birger Walhstroms Minnesfond foundation
- Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmastare foundation
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [660122] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Nephridiophagids are poorly known unicellular eukaryotes, previously of uncertain systematic position, that parasitize the Malpighian tubules of insects. Their life cycle includes merogony with multinucleate plasmodia and sporogony leading to small, uninucleate spores. We examined the phylogenetic affiliations of three species of Nephridiophaga, including one new species, Nephridiophaga maderae, from the Madeira cockroach (Leucophaea maderae). In addition to the specific host, the new species differs from those already known by the size of the spores and by the number of spores within the sporogenic plasmodium. The inferred phylogenetic analyses strongly support a placement of the nephridiophagids in the fungal kingdom near its root and with a close, but unresolved, relationship to the chytids (Chytridiomycota). We found evidence for the nephridiophagidean speciation as being strongly coupled to host speciation.
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