Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zheng L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4820453 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in physiology 20160405
Oomycetes are a family of eukaryotic microbes that superficially resemble fungi, but which are phylogenetically distinct from them. These organisms cause major global economic losses to agriculture and fisheries, with representative pathogens being Phytophthora infestans, the cause of late potato blight and Saprolegnia diclina, the instigator of "cotton molds" in fish. As in all eukaryotes, cytoplasmic Ca(2+) is a key second messenger in oomycetes, regulating life-cycle transitions, controlling ...[more]