TY - JOUR
TI - Ultrastructure of the Microsporidium, Duboscqia legeri, the Type Species of the Genus Duboscqia Perez, 1908
AU - Weiser, Jaroslav
AU - Belton, Peter
AU - Zizka, Zdenek
AU - Holusa, Jaroslav
TI - Ultrastructure of the Microsporidium, Duboscqia legeri, the Type Species of the Genus Duboscqia Perez, 1908
AB - The type species of the genus Duboscqia Perez, 1908 (Opisthokonta, Microspora), D. legeri is a pathogen of termites. It was found again in Zootermopsis angusticollis in British Columbia and the material is used for emendation of data on ultrastructures of this old genus. The sporogony of this microsporidian ends with 16 oval spores closed in sporophorous vesicles. The isofilar polar filament coiled in 13 coils, the arched anchoring disc and the polaroplast with tightly packed lamellae are typical for the ultrastructures of uninucleate spores. The sporophorous vesicle is persistent. The microsporidian infects cyst-like lobes of the fat body hanging free in the body cavity. Relations to other related genera are discussed.
VL - 2010
IS - Volume 49, Issue 2
PY - 2010
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 125
EP - 131
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/ultrastructure-of-the-microsporidium-duboscqia-legeri-the-type-species-of-the-genus-duboscqia-perez-1908
KW - Duboscqia legeri
KW - microsporidium
KW - ultrastructures