Bartolomé Carolina, Higes Mariano, Hernández Raquel Martín, Chen Yan Ping, Evans Jay D, Huang Qiang
Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, CIMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Laboratorio de Patología Apícola, Centro de Investigación Apícola y Agroambiental (CIAPA), Instituto Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario y Forestal (IRIAF), Consejería de Agricultura de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Marchamalo, Spain.
J Invertebr Pathol. 2024 Sep;206:108146. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2024.108146. Epub 2024 Jun 8.
The genus Vairimorpha was proposed for several species of Nosema in 1976 (Pilley, 1976), almost 70 years after Nosema apis Zander (Zander, 1909). Tokarev and colleagues proposed the redefinition of 17 microsporidian species in four genera, Nosema, Vairimorpha, Rugispora, and Oligosporidium, based on phylogenetic trees of two genetic markers (SSU rRNA and RPB1) (Tokarev et al., 2020). Several issues should invalidate this new classification, leading to the synonymization of Vairimorpha within Nosema.
1976年,Vairimorpha属是为几种微孢子虫属物种而设立的(皮利,1976年),这距离蜜蜂微孢子虫(赞德,1909年)的发现已经过去了近70年。托卡列夫及其同事基于两个遗传标记(小亚基核糖体RNA和RNA聚合酶II最大亚基)的系统发育树,对微孢子虫属、Vairimorpha属、Rugispora属和寡孢微孢子虫属四个属中的17个微孢子虫物种进行了重新定义(托卡列夫等人,2020年)。有几个问题应该会使这种新分类无效,从而导致Vairimorpha属并入微孢子虫属成为同义词。