It is wonderful to see a new genus - Morrittospora - named after @rhulbiology.bsky.social's Professor David Morritt, to mark his recent retirement and in honour of his research career which included the study of invasive species in the Thames!
Royal Holloway Biology
Meet Morrittospora corbiculae - a newly discovered microsporidian parasite of the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea in the Thames. Evidence also suggests infection spillover to declining native Unio mussels. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microsporidia are highly diverse parasites of a broad range of eukaryotic hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Freshwater diversity of mi…
