Glugea

Genus of microsporidian parasites

Glugea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Rozellomycota
Class:	Microsporidea
Order:	Glugeida
Family:	Glugeidae
Genus:	Glugea

Glugea is a genus of microsporidian parasites, predominantly infecting fish.^[1] Infections of Glugea cause xenoma formation. ^[1]

Currently, Phylogenetic tree of this genus seem unreliable, as not enough evidence is present, ^[1] therefore species with their common hosts are given in a list:

G. anomala (syn. G. weissenbergi) – a parasite of the three-spined stickleback and the ninespine stickleback^[1]
G. atherinae – a parasite of the big-scale sand smelt^[1]
G. berglax – a parasite of the roughhead grenadier^[1]
G. bychowski – a parasite of the Caspian anadromous shad^[1]
G. capverdensis – a parasite of the spotted lanternfish^[1]
G. heraldi – a parasite of the seahorse Hippocampus erectus^[1]
G. hertwigi – a parasite of the European smelt and the Rainbow smelt^[1]^[2]
G. nagelia – a parasite of the yellowfin hind^[3]
G. plecoglossi – a parasite of the ayu sweetfish^[1]
G. sardinellensis – a parasite of fish of the genus Sardinella^[4]
G. shiplei – a parasite of fish of the pouting^[1]
G. stephani – a parasite of Pleuronectes flesus, the winter flounder, the English sole, and the Common dab^[1]
G. vincentiae – a parasite of the Australian marine teleost fish, Vincentia conspersa^[5]
G. truttae – a parasite of the brown trout^[1]

Spraguea lophii has formerly been described as G. americanus.^[1]

Microgemma caulleryi that infects the greater sand eel was previously classified as G. caulleryi.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Lom, J. (2002). "A catalogue of described genera and species of microsporidians parasitic in fish". Systematic Parasitology. 53 (2): 81–99. doi:10.1023/A:1020422209539.
^ Pekcan‐Hekim, Z.; Rahkonen, R.; Horppila, J. (2005). "Occurrence of the parasite Glugea hertwigi in young‐of‐the‐year smelt in Lake Tuusulanjärvi". Journal of Fish Biology. 66 (2): 583–588. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2005.00617.x.
^ Abdel-Baki, A.-A. S.; Al-Quraishy, S.; Rocha, S.; Dkhil, M. A.; Casal, G.; Azevedo, C. (2015). "Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Glugea nagelia sp. n. (Microsporidia: Glugeidae), infecting the intestinal wall of the yellowfin hind, Cephalopholis hemistiktos (Actinopterygii: Serranidae), from the Red Sea". Folia Parasitologica. 62. doi:10.14411/fp.2015.007. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 25960551.
^ Mansour, L.; Thabet, A.; Harrath, A. H.; Y. Al Omar, S.; Mukhtar, A.; R. Sayed, S.; Abdel-Baki, A.-A. Sh. (2016). "New microsporidia, Glugea sardinellensis n sp (Microsporea, Glugeida) found in Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847, collected off Tunisian coasts". Acta Protozoologica. 55 (4). doi:10.4467/16890027AP.16.028.6097.
^ Vagelli, A.; Paramá, A.; Sanmartín, M. L.; Leiro, J. (2005). "Glugea vincentiae n. sp. (microsporidia: glugeidae) infecting the Australian marine fish Vincentia conspersa (teleostei: apogonidae)". Journal of Parasitology. 91 (1): 152–157. doi:10.1645/GE-388R.
^ Leiro, J.; Paramá, A.; Ortega, M.; Santamarina, M. T.; Sanmartín, M. L. (1999). "Redescription of Glugea caulleryi , a microsporidian parasite of the greater sand‐eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus (Le Sauvage), (Teleostei: Ammodytidae), as Microgemma caulleryi comb. nov". Journal of Fish Diseases. 22 (2): 101–110. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2761.1999.00146.x.