Loma morhua

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Loma morhua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Microsporidia
Class: Haplophasea
Order: Gluegeida
Family: Glugeidae
Genus: Loma
Species: Loma morhua
Morrison & Sprague, 1981

Loma morhua, also known as Loma branchialis, is a species of microsporidian parasite, infecting fish.[1] It forms xenoparasitic complexes of the cell-hypertrophy tumour type, and is found in the gills of the Atlantic cod Gadus morhua. It is apansporoblastic, unikaryotic, disporoblastic and undergoes partial development in parasitophorous vacuoles, while lacking plasmodial stages. It produces 1 or 2 spores in a vacuole, having tubules in the parasitophorous vacuoles.

References

  1. Morrison, Carol M.; Sprague, V. (1981). "Electron microscopical study of a new genus and new species of microsporida in the gills of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua L.*". Journal of Fish Diseases 4 (1): 15–32. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2761.1981.tb01106.x. ISSN 0140-7775. 

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