Draft:Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae
Species of microsporidia-like endoparasite
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Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae is a species of microsporidia-like endoparasite that infects free-living amoebae. It was described in 2014 from a parasite of Saccamoeba.[1]
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| Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Rozellomycota |
| Genus: | Paramicrosporidium |
| Species: | P. saccamoebae |
| Binomial name | |
| Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae Corsaro, Walochnik, D. Venditti, J. Steinmann, K.-D. Müll. & R. Michel, 2014 | |
Taxonomy
Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae was described by Corsaro and colleagues in 2014 in a study of microsporidia-like parasites of amoebae.[1] Index Fungorum lists the name as Paramicrosporidium saccamoebae Corsaro, Walochnik, D. Venditti, J. Steinmann, K.-D. Müll. & R. Michel.[2]
The species has been placed among microsporidia-like organisms related to Rozellomycota, a group of intracellular parasites close to the base of the fungal tree.[1]
Discovery and culture
The strain was isolated from mud and decaying plant material from a pond near Egestorf in the Lüneburg Heath, Germany.[3]
Biology
The organism produces spores resembling those of microsporidia-like parasites, although molecular studies placed it with rozellid or rozellomycotan lineages rather than with typical Microsporidia.[1]