Generation of a microsporidia species attribute database and analysis of the extensive ecological and phenotypic diversity of microsporidia
B. M. Murareanu, R. Sukhdeo, R. Qu, J. Jiang, A. W. Reinke
The paper creates a database of 1,440 microsporidia species and analyzes their ecological and phenotypic diversity, finding broad host ranges and polar tube length as a determinant of tissue specificity.
bioRxiv · Feb 21, 2021Microbiology