ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2021
Emerging Parasitic Protists: The Case of Perkinsea.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Global perspective of environmental distribution and diversity of Perkinsea (Alveolata) explored by a meta-analysis of eDNA surveys.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Response of Soil Protist Community to Grazing Disturbance in an Alpine Grassland on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Ancient conservation of androglobin expression reveals its evolutionary link to ciliary processes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Moderate-high heritability and QTL associated with Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum resistance to the parasite Perkinsus olseni.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Higher Trophic Status Leads to More Diverse and Divergent Microeukaryote Communities Over Time in Urban Lakes From the Greater Paris (France).Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Tadpole Doctor: a UK-based citizen science project that identifies novel Perkinsea clades closely related to candidate amphibian pathogens.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Biological control potential of red-tide marine dinoflagellate blooms by an Amoebophrya parasitic killer.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Freshwater Discharge and Salinity Drive Taxonomic and Functional Turnover of Microbial Communities in a Turbid Macrotidal Estuary.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- MoPSeq-DB: a user-friendly web application for genomic data management and analysis of marine mollusc pathogens.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2025Article
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- Spatio-temporal changes of small protist and free-living bacterial communities in a temperate dimictic lake: insights from metabarcoding and machine learning.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- XENOFOOD-An Autoclaved Feed Supplement Containing Autoclavable Antimicrobial Peptides-Exerts Anticoccidial GI Activity, and Causes Bursa Enlargement, but Has No Detectable Harmful Effects in Broiler Cockerels despite In Vitro Detectable Cytotoxicity on LHM Cells.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Perkinsus marinus in bioreactor: growth and a cost-reduced growth medium.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2023Article
- Co-infection of two eukaryotic pathogens within clam populations in Arcachon Bay.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Development of a novel electroporation method for the oyster parasite Perkinsus marinus.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi.Microbiome · 2022Article
- A diversified and segregated mRNA spliced-leader system in the parasitic Perkinsozoa.Open biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The last century has witnessed an increasing rate of new disease emergence across the world leading to permanent loss of biodiversity. Perkinsea is a microeukaryotic parasitic phylum composed of four main lineages of parasitic protists with broad host ranges. Some of them represent major ecological and economical threats because of their geographically invasive ability and pathogenicity (leading to mortality events). In marine environments, three lineages are currently described, the Parviluciferaceae, the Perkinsidae, and the Xcellidae, infecting, respectively, dinoflagellates, mollusks, and fish. In contrast, only one lineage is officially described in freshwater environments: the severe Perkinsea infectious agent infecting frog tadpoles. The advent of high-throughput sequencing methods, mainly based on 18S rRNA assays, showed that Perkinsea is far more diverse than the previously four described lineages especially in freshwater environments. Indeed, some lineages could be parasites of green microalgae, but a formal nature of the interaction needs to be explored. Hence, to date, most of the newly described aquatic clusters are only defined by their environmental sequences and are still not (yet) associated with any host. The unveiling of this microbial black box presents a multitude of research challenges to understand their ecological roles and ultimately to prevent their most negative impacts. This review summarizes the biological and ecological traits of Perkinsea-their diversity, life cycle, host preferences, pathogenicity, and highlights their diversity and ubiquity in association with a wide range of hosts.
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