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Nosema (microsporidian)
Genus of parasitic fungi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the genus in Lamiaceae, the mint family, see Nosema (plant).
Nosema is a genus of microsporidian parasites. The genus, circumscribed by Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli in 1857, contains 81 species.[1] Most parasitise insects and other arthropods, and the best-known Nosema species parasitise honeybees, where they are considered a significant disease by beekeepers, often causing a colony to fail to thrive in the spring as they come out of their overwintering period. Eight species parasitize digeneans, a group of parasitic flatworms, and thus are hyperparasites, i.e., parasites of a parasite.[2]
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Nosema podocotyloidis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Microsporidia |
Family: | Nosematidae |
Genus: | Nosema Nägeli (1857) |
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