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Emerging infectious diseases by zoosporic parasites Gleason, Frank [1]. Resource seeking strategies of zoosporic true fungi. Since Sparrow published his book on aquatic phycomycetes in 1960, a large number of previously unknown parasites which infect animal, plant and microbial hosts have been described and added to the groups of microorganisms which we consider to cause documented infectious disease. Many of these agents of disease fit into the model of emerging infectious diseases described by Fisher et al. in 2012. Parasitic species in the Chytridiomycota, Blastocladiomycota, Olpidium clade, Aphelidea, Mesomycetozoea, Oomycota, Hyphochytriomycota, Labyrithulomycota, Perkinsozoea, Phytomyxea and others all infect hosts with zoospores, have similar life cycles and infection strategies, but are considered to be phylogenetically unrelated. Yet environmental surveys find many of them in the same ecosystems. The sizes of populations of hosts may be regulated by interactions between these parasites and their hosts as well as by environmental factors. Some examples of zoosporic parasites will be considered in this symposium.
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1 - University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences, Macleay Building A12, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Keywords:
zoosporic true fungi.
Presentation Type: Symposium or Colloquium Presentation
Session: SY7
Location: Auditorium/Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
Date: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Time: 3:30 PM
Number: SY7006
Abstract ID:223
Candidate for Awards:None |
