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CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms
- J. Pawlowski, S. Audic, +30 authors C. de Vargas
- Biology, Medicine
- PLoS biology
- 1 November 2012
A group of protist experts proposes a two-step DNA barcoding approach, comprising a universal eukaryotic pre-barcode followed by group-specific barcodes, to unveil the hidden biodiversity of… Expand
Cryptosporidia: epicellular parasites embraced by the host cell membrane.
- A. Valigurová, M. Jirků, B. Koudela, M. Gelnar, D. Modrý, J. Šlapeta
- Biology, Medicine
- International journal for parasitology
- 1 July 2008
The ultrastructure of two gastric cryptosporidia, Cryptosporidium muris from experimentally infected rodents (Mastomys natalensis) and Cryptosporidium sp. 'toad' from naturally infected toads… Expand
New species of Cryptosporidium Tyzzer, 1907 (Apicomplexa) from amphibian host: morphology, biology and phylogeny.
- M. Jirků, A. Valigurová, B. Koudela, J. Křížek, D. Modrý, J. Šlapeta
- Biology, Medicine
- Folia parasitologica
- 1 June 2008
Cryptosporidium fragile sp. n. (Apicomplexa) is described from black-spined toads, Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider) (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) from the Malay Peninsula. The parasitized… Expand
A Suspected Parasite Spill-Back of Two Novel Myxidium spp. (Myxosporea) Causing Disease in Australian Endemic Frogs Found in the Invasive Cane Toad
- Ashlie Hartigan, I. Fiala, +5 authors J. Šlapeta
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 25 April 2011
Infectious diseases are contributing to the decline of endangered amphibians. We identified myxosporean parasites, Myxidium spp. (Myxosporea: Myxozoa), in the brain and liver of declining native… Expand
Another Chloromyxid Lineage: Molecular Phylogeny and Redescription of Chloromyxum careni from the Asian Horned frog Megophrys nasuta
- M. Jirků, P. Bartošová, A. Kodádková, F. Mutschmann
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology
- 2011
ABSTRACT. Infection with Chloromyxum careni Mutschmann, 1999 was found in the Asian horned frog Megophrys nasuta from Malaysia and Indonesia. Kidney was the only organ infected. Coelozoic plasmodia… Expand
Goussia Labbé, 1896 (Apicomplexa, Eimeriorina) in Amphibia: diversity, biology, molecular phylogeny and comments on the status of the genus.
- M. Jirků, M. Jirků, M. Oborník, J. Lukeš, D. Modrý
- Biology, Medicine
- Protist
- 1 February 2009
We provide new data on morphology, host specificity, life history, pathology and phylogeny of the coccidian genus Goussia in European anurans. Divergence in the SSU rDNA sequences (3-4%) of three… Expand
A Model for Taxonomic Work on Homoxenous Coccidia: Redescription, Host Specificity, and Molecular Phylogeny of Eimeria ranae Dobell, 1909, with a Review of Anuran‐Host Eimeria (Apicomplexa:…
- M. Jirků, M. Jirků, M. Oborník, J. Lukeš, D. Modrý
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology
- 2009
ABSTRACT. We attempt to extend knowledge of anuran Eimeria, and to provide a model for a complex approach to studies on coccidia. New host and geographic records of coccidia in European Anura are… Expand
A NEW SPECIES OF MYXIDIUM (MYXOSPOREA: MYXIDIIDAE), FROM THE WESTERN CHORUS FROG, PSEUDACRIS TRISERIATA TRISERIATA, AND BLANCHARD'S CRICKET FROG, ACRIS CREPITANS BLANCHARDI (HYLIDAE), FROM EASTERN…
- M. Jirků, M. Bolek, Chris M Whipps, J. Janovy, M. Kent, D. Modrý
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of parasitology
- 1 June 2006
During March 2001–April 2004, 164 adult anurans of 6 species (47 Rana blairi, 35 Rana catesbeiana, 31 Hyla chrysoscelis, 31 Pseudacris triseriata triseriata, 11 Bufo woodhousii, and 9 Acris crepitans… Expand
Cryptic infection of a broad taxonomic and geographic diversity of tadpoles by Perkinsea protists
- A. Chambouvet, D. Gower, +8 authors T. Richards
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 10 August 2015
Significance Amphibians are among the most threatened animal groups. Population declines and extinctions have been linked, in part, to emerging infectious diseases. One such emerging disease has been… Expand
Revision of Wenyonia Woodland, 1923 (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from catfishes (Siluriformes) in Africa
- B. C. Schaeffner, M. Jirků, Zuheir N. Mahmoud, T. Scholz
- Biology, Medicine
- Systematic Parasitology
- 5 May 2011
Tapeworms of the genus Wenyonia Woodland, 1923 (Caryophyllidea: Caryophyllaeidae), parasites of catfishes in Africa, are revised. This revision is based on material from large-scale sampling, in the… Expand