Morphology and Transcriptome Analysis of Nosema bombycis Sporoplasm and Insights into the Initial Infection of Microsporidia

Once awoken from dormancy, the cellular matter of microsporidia is delivered directly into the host cell cytoplasm through the polar tube. This means that the microsporidia are difficult to study biologically in their active state without a contaminating signal from the host cell. Sporoplasm is a ce...

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Main Authors: Qiang He, Jian Luo, Jin-Zhi Xu, Chun-xia Wang, Xian-zhi Meng, Guo-Qing Pan, Tian Li, Ze-Yang Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-02-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00958-19