Cellular organization and phylogeny of Cryptonaiada gen. n. (Cryptonaiadidae fam. n.) shed light on the evolution of intracellular vertebrate parasitism in Apicomplexa
ABSTRACT Apicomplexan parasites have coevolved with animal hosts for hundreds of millions of years, yet only a handful of their lineages have made the transition to infecting vertebrates. Among the least understood vertebrate-infecting apicomplexans is Nematopsis temporariae, recently rediscovered after nearly a centur...