OlGordya

[OlGordya @OGordya]

@knurles vary from cell to cell (may be not very significantly). That means that the parasite(s) will proliferate until all resources will be  exhausted.

[OlGordya @OGordya]

Thank the organizers for this opportunity to present our research on #ProtistSession I am Olga Gordetskaya, a bachelor student from SPBU, I am a member of Elena Nassonova’s research group.
Let start our tour inside amoeba nucleus to understand this step by step!

[OlGordya @OGordya]

@knurles Thank you for the comment!
In general, the number of produced spores is very high (hundreds!), it is hardly can be calculated  with any suitable accuracy. We assume that the number of produced parasites directly depends on the volume and «capacity» of amoeba nucleus and can vary

[OlGordya @OGordya]

@MicahDunthorn The data of environmental sequencing demonstrated a hidden diversity and suggested an existence of closely related lineages. A few other rozellid species from amoebae were described as well (Paramicrosporidium and Morellospore).

[OlGordya @OGordya]

@MicahDunthorn Thanks for interest.
After the re-isolation of N. amoebae by R.Michel from moss samples collected in Austria (it was the only case of rediscovery of this organism in the last decades) only one more species of the genus Nucleophaga was isolated: N. terricolae.