• Corpus ID: 39319667

[Six new species of microsporidia of the genus Amblyospora (Microspora: Amblyosporidae) from blood sucking mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the west Siberia].

@article{Simakova2005SixNS,
  title={[Six new species of microsporidia of the genus Amblyospora (Microspora: Amblyosporidae) from blood sucking mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the west Siberia].},
  author={A V Simakova and T F Pankova},
  journal={Parazitologiia},
  year={2005},
  volume={39 5},
  pages={
          371-85
        }
}
Microsporidia of the genus Amblyospora parasiting the adipose body of mosquito larvae of the genus Aedes and Culex has been studied with both light and electron microscopy. Six new species of microsporidia are described based on ultrastructural characteristics of spores and sporogony stages. Amblyospora flavescens sp. n. Mature spores are egg-shaped. The spore wall with three layers, about 165 nm. Exospore is two-membranous. Subexospore is absent. Endospore is electron-translucent. Polaroplast… 

Ecological aspects of Microsporidia parasitizing in natural populations of the Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) blood-suking mosquitoes in Western Siberia

This study isolated 26 microsporidian species representing five genera from mosquitoes; of them, the Amblyospora species were the most abundant and the majority of species display a high level of host specificity.

MICROSPORIDIAN PARASITES OF MOSQUITOES

    T. Andreadis
    Biology
    Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
  • 2007
The Microsporidia are a large diverse group of obligate, intracellular parasites that have small genomes in the size range of prokaryotic cells and are now thought to be highly evolved fungi.