Antonospora locustae is an intracellular parasite infecting more than 100 Orthopteran species. Although the parasite is used as a biological control agent infecting against locusts and grasshoppers, t
BackgroundMicrosporidia are intracellular parasites that are highly-derived relatives of fungi. They have compacted genomes and, despite a high rate of sequence evolution, distantly related species ca
Members of the phylum Microsporidia are highly successful, obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites with remarkably small genomes of 2.3-20 megabases (MB). They infect nearly all the invertebrate p