LSI-Exeter (@lsiexeter.bsky.social)

The Living Systems Institute (LSI) at the University of Exeter leads cutting-edge interdisciplinary research by bioscientists, biomedical scientists, mathematicians, & Physicists co-located in one building, decoding biological complexity across scales.

Occurrence and genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in flying squirrels (Trogopterus xanthipes) from China | Parasite

Parasite international open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal publishing high quality papers on all aspects of human and animal parasitology

Microsporidian heavy infection in a batch of salted and dried cod | Italian Journal of Food Safety

Ultrastructural insights into the microsporidian infection apparatus reveal the kinetics and morphological transitions of polar tube and cargo during host cell invasion

Microsporidia utilize the polar tube to transport their infectious sporoplasm from the spore to the host for infection. These authors characterize the ultrastructure and composition of the polar tube to identify different states of the tube wall, visualize transported cargo, and discover uniquely arranged ribosomes along the thin tube wall providing new insights into ribosome regulation and transport.

Comparing Microsporidia-targeting primers for environmental DNA sequencing

Metabarcoding is a powerful tool to detect classical, and well-known “long-branch” Microsporidia in environmental samples. Several primer pairs were developed to target these unique microbial parasites, the majority of which remain undetected ...