Hazardia (microsporidian)
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| Hazardia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Rozellomycota |
| Class: | Microsporidea |
| Order: | Amblyosporida |
| Genus: | Hazardia Weiser, 1977 |
| Type species | |
| Hazardia milleri (Hazard & Fukuda 1974) Weiser 1977 | |
| Species | |
Hazardia is a genus of microsporidians that parasite insects, with the type host being Culex pipiens.[1] It is currently classified as incertae sedis within the order Amblyosporida of phylum Rozellomycota.[2]
Hazardia is characterized by three sporulation sequences that occur primarily in the fat body of larval mosquitoes:[1]
- Second sequence: diplokaryotic (i.e. with paired nuclei) sporonts divide through binary fission to produce lanceolate, thick-walled binucleate spores with a rugose exospore.
- Third sequence: the most common sequence, it involves uninucleate sporonts that form sporogonial plasmodia that divide by multiple fission producing between 2 and 16 uninucleate spores (usually 8) that are pyriform and thin walled.