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SUBMITTER: Balla KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5094362 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Balla Keir M KM Luallen Robert J RJ Bakowski Malina A MA Troemel Emily R ER
Nature microbiology 20160822 11
The growth of pathogens is dictated by their interactions with the host environment<sup>1</sup>. Obligate intracellular pathogens undergo several cellular decisions as they progress through their life cycles inside host cells<sup>2</sup>. We have studied this process for microsporidian species in the genus Nematocida as they grew and developed inside their co-evolved animal host, Caenorhabditis elegans<sup>3-5</sup>. We found that microsporidia can restructure multicellular host tissues into a s ...[more]