Microsporidian Nosema bombycis hijacks host vitellogenin and restructures ovariole cells for transovarial transmission.

Microsporidia are a group of obligate intracellular parasites that infect almost all animals, causing serious human diseases and major economic losses to the farming industry. Nosema bombycis is a typical microsporidium that infects multiple lepidopteran insects via fecal-oral and transovarial trans...

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Main Authors: Chunxia Wang, Bin Yu, Xianzhi Meng, Dan Xia, Boyan Pei, Xiangyou Tang, Guizheng Zhang, Junhong Wei, Mengxian Long, Jie Chen, Jialing Bao, Chunfeng Li, Guoqing Pan, Zeyang Zhou, Tian Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-12-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011859&type=printable