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Helicosporidia Bibliography

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Avery, S. W. and A. H. Undeen (1987). "Some characteristics of a new isolate of Helicosporidium and its effect upon mosquitoes." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 49(3): 246-251.
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Bläske-Lietze, V.-U., A. Shapiro, J. S. Denton, M. Botts, J. J. Becnel and D. G. Boucias (2006). "Development of the insect pathogenic alga Helicosporidium." J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 53(3): 165-176.
Borza, T., C. E. Popescu and R. W. Lee (2005). "Multiple Metabolic Roles for the Nonphotosynthetic Plastid of the Green Alga Prototheca wickerhamii." Eukaryotic Cell 4(2): 253-261.
Boucias, D. G., J. J. Becnel, S. E. White and M. Bott (2001). "In Vivo and In Vitro Development of the Protist Helicosporidium sp." Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 48(4): 460-470.
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Chapman, H. C., D. B. Woodard and J. J. Petersen (1967). "Pathogens and parasites in Louisiana Culicidae and Chaoboridae." Proceedings of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association 54: 54-60.
Conklin, T., V.-U. Bläske-Lietze, J. J. Becnel and D. G. Boucias (2005). "Infectivity of two isolates of Helicosporidium spp. (Chlorophyta: Trebouxiphyceae) in heterologous host insects." Florida Entomologist 88(4): 431-439.
de Koning, A. P. and P. J. Keeling (2004). "Nucleus-encoded genes for plastid-targeted proteins in Helicosporidium: functional diversity of a cryptic plastid in a parasitic alga." Eukaryotic Cell 3(5): 1198-1205.
de Koning, A. P. and P. J. Keeling (2006). "The complete plastid genome sequence of the parasitic green alga Helicosporidium sp. is highly reduced and structured." BMC Evolutionary Biology 4(1): 12.
de Koning, A. P., A. Tartar, D. G. Boucias and P. J. Keeling (2005). "Expressed sequence tag (EST) survey of the highly adapted green algal parasite, Helicosporidium." Protist 156(2): 181-190.
Fukuda, T. and H. C. Chapman (1985). "Helicosporidium (Protozoa)." Bulletin American Mosquito Control Association 6: 59-61.
Fukuda, T., J. E. Lindegren and H. C. Chapman (1976). "Helicosporidium sp. a new parasite of mosquitoes." Mosquito News 36(4): 514-517.
Hamana, K., T. Aizaki, E. Arai, A. Saito, K. Uchikata and H. Ohnishi (2004). "Distribution of norspermidine as a cellular polyamine within micro green algae including non-photosynthetic achlorophyllous Polytoma, Polytomella, Prototheca and Helicosporidium." Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 50(5): 289-295.
Hembree, S. C. (1979). "Preliminary report of some mosquitoes pathogens from Thailand." Mosquito News 39(3): 575-582.
Hembree, S. C. (1981). "Evaluation of the microbial control potential of a Helicosporidium sp. (Protozoa: Helicosporida) from Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus from Thailand." Mosquito News 41(4): 770-783.
Keilin, D. (1921). "On the life-hisotry of Helicosporidium parasiticum, n. g., n. sp., a new type of protist parasitic in the larva of Dasyhelea obscura Winn. (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) and some other arthropods." Parasitology 13(2): 97-113.
Kellen, W. R. and J. E. Lindegren (1973). "New host records for Helicosporidium parasiticum." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 22(2): 296-297.
Kellen, W. R. and J. E. Lindegren (1974). "Life cycle of Helicosporidium parasiticum in the navel orangeworm, Paramyelois transitella." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 23(2): 202-208.
Kim, S. S. and S. W. Avery (1986). "Effects of Helicosporidium sp. infection on larval mortality, adult longevity, and fecundity of Culex salinarius Coq." Korean Journal of Entomology 16(2): 153-156.
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Lindegren, J. E. and D. F. Hoffmann (1976). "Ultrastructure of some developmental stages of Helicosporidium sp. in the navel orangeworm, Paramyelois transitella." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 27(1): 105-113.
Lindergren, J. E. and G. T. Okmura (1973). "Pathogens from economically important nitidulid beetles." USDA ARS W-9: 1-7.
Pekkarinen, M. (1993). "Bucephalid trematode sporocysts in brackish-water Mytilus edulis, new host of a Helicosporidium sp. (Protozoa: Helicosporida)." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 61(2): 214-216.
Purrini, K. (1979). On the incidence and distribution of parasites of soil fauna of mixed coniferous forests, mixed leaf forests, and pure beech forests of Lower Saxony, West Germany. Proc. VII Internat. Soil Zool. Colloquium of the Internat. Soc. of Soil Sci., Syracuse, NY, Washington, DC, USA: Office of Pesticide and Toxic Substances.
Purrini, K. (1980). "Malamoeba scolyti sp. n. (Amoebidae, Rhizopoda, Protozoa) parasitizing the bark beetles, Dryocoetes autographus Ratz., and Hylurgops palliatus Gyll. (Scolytidae, Coleoptera)." Archiv fur Protistenkunde 123(3): 358-366.
Purrini, K. (1981). "Studies on some amoebae (Amoebida) and Helicosporidium parasiticum (Helicosporida) infecting moss-mites (Oribatei, Acarina), in forest soil samples." Archiv fur Protistenkunde 124: 303-311.
Purrini, K. (1984). "Light and electron microscope studies on Helicosporidium sp. parasitizing oribatid mites (Oribatei, Acarina) and Collembola (Apterygota, Insecta) in forest soils." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 44(1): 18-27.
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Sayre, R. M. and T. B. Clark (1978). "Daphnia magna (Cladocera: Chydoroidea), a new host of a Helicosporidium sp. (Protozoa: Helicosporida)." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 31(2): 260-261.
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Tartar, A. (2004). Incertae sedis no more: The phylogenetic affinity of Helicosporidia. Entomology and Nematology. Gainesville, University of Florida. Doctor of Philosophy: 98.
Tartar, A. and D. G. Boucias (2003). "Incertae sedis no more: The phylogenetic affinity of Helicosporidia." Journal of Phycology 39(S1): 55.
Tartar, A. and D. G. Boucias (2004). "The non-photosynthetic, pathogenic green alga Helicosporidium sp. has retained a modified, functional plastid genome." FEMS microbiology letters 233(1): 153-157.
Tartar, A., D. G. Boucias, B. J. Adams and J. J. Becnel (2002). "Phylogenetic analysis identifies the invertebrate pathogen Helicosporidium sp. as a green alga (Chlorophyta)." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52(1): 273-279.
Tartar, A., D. G. Boucias, J. J. Becnel and B. J. Adams (2003). "Comparison of plastid 16S rRNA (rrn16) genes from Helicosporidium spp.: evidence supporting the reclassification of Helicosporidia as green algae (Chlorophyta)." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53(6): 1719-1723.
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Weiser, J. (1964). "The taxonomic position of Helicosporidium parasiticum, Keilin 1924." Journal of Protozoology 19(3): 440-445.
Weiser, J. (1970). "Helicosporidium parasiticum Keilin infection in the caterpillar of a hepialid moth in Argentina." Journal of Protozoology 17(3): 436-440.
Williams, B. A. and P. J. Keeling (2003). "Cryptic organelles in parasitic protists and fungi." Advances in Parasitology 54: 9-68.
Yaman, M. and R. Radek (2005). "Helicosporidium infection of the great European spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus micans (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)." European Journal of Protistology 41(203-207).