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bmauschen.eurosky.social
in der Parasitierten Krabbe und eine Masse aus Fortpflanzungsorganen, obwohl er selbst ein Krebstier ist!

Am extremsten sind aber vielleicht die Myxozoa - eine Gruppe aus Nesseltieren, also Verwandten von Quallen und Korallen 🪸🪼, die als Parasiten in ganz >

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxozoa
June 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
sambelman.bsky.social
The size of a myxozoa.
April 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
bmauschen.eurosky.social
Zellinien sind also zumindest auf dem Weg eigenständige Arten unabhängig von ihrer Ursprungsart zu werden, mit eigenständiger Lebensweise, Fortpflanzung und Genetik! Vielleicht haben die Myxozoa ähnlich angefangen.

Aber vielleicht geht es sogar noch extremer, denn eine Hypothese für die Entstehung>
June 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
parasitejournal.bsky.social
𝙈𝙮𝙭𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝙧𝙝𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙞 (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) is a kidney-infecting myxosporean originally described from the European bitterling.
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of the species through morphological, ecological and molecular methods.🧪
#openaccess: doi.org/10.1051/para...
Solving the Myxidium rhodei (Myxozoa) puzzle: insights into its phylogeny and host specificity in Cypriniformes Abstract Myxidium rhodei Léger, 1905 (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) is a kidney-infecting myxosporean that was originally described from the European bitterling Rhodeus amarus. Subsequently, it has been documented based on spore morphology in more than 40 other cypriniform species, with the roach Rutilus rutilus being the most commonly reported host. This study introduces the first comprehensive data assessment of M. rhodei, conducted through morphological, ecological and molecular methods. The morphological and phylogenetic analyses of SSU rDNA sequences of Myxidium isolates obtained from European bitterling and roach did not support parasite conspecificity from these fish. In fact, the roach-infecting isolates represent three distinct parasite species. The first two, M. rutili n. sp. and M. rutilusi n. sp., are closely related cryptic species clustering with other myxosporeans in the freshwater urinary clade, sharing the same tissue tropism. The third one, M. batuevae n. sp., previously assigned to M. cf. rhodei, clustered in the hepatic biliary clade sister to bitterling-infecting M. rhodei. Our examination of diverse cypriniform fishes, coupled with molecular and morphological analyses, allowed us to untangle the cryptic species nature of M. rhodei and discover the existence of novel species. This underscores the largely undiscovered range of myxozoan diversity and highlights the need to incorporate sequence data in diagnosing novel species.
January 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
barrygoldman1.bsky.social
@thibautbrunet.bsky.social if cnidarians evolved into myxozoa... actually... do myxozoa move between single and multiple cell stage? certain 'yeasts' surely do...
May 20, 2026 at 7:24 PM
jeffday.bsky.social
what the FUCK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxozoa
rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Jun 12
A jellyfish evolved back to a single call that doesn’t need oxygen and now lives in the eggs of a sturgeon. Repeat: there’s a single-called jellyfish vibing O2-free inside CAVIAR AND WE CAN’T STUDY IT BECAUSE IT LIVES IN THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE AND IMPOSSIBLE-TO-IMPORT FOOD.
June 12, 2023 at 7:49 PM
gsjphd.bsky.social
behold, THE most stripped down parasites.
Myxozoa - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
haruspex.bsky.social
All of the pictures taken of me involve gesticulating wildly about how cool some pathogen is.
(Honestly, if you don’t get excited about myxozoa… have a seat, I’m about to get you excited about myxozoa.)
Me on a stage behind a podium, gesturing in ways that are dangerous to microphones. My left hand is touching my chest in a classic, “Well I’ll be darned.” And my right hand is up looking like I’ve dropped a mic, but is probably indicating some sort of free-swimming spore stage of the myxozoan. A projected image is to my left, viewer’s right, and it’s a pretty pink and blue blob, which is a microscopic image of a bunch of myxozoa in a tissue cyst in a fish with an acid-fast stain. The placard on the podium reads ASM Microbe, the name of the conference.
June 5, 2026 at 12:48 PM
spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social
regular myxozoa are already pretty cool🪼🧪

but *myxosporean* myxozoa might be the 1st SCANDALs: Speciation by CAncer Development AnimaLs

yes, literally a transmissible cancer that evolved into a new species https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-new-species-evolve-from-cancers-maybe-heres-how-20190819/
June 13, 2023 at 2:52 PM
parasitejournal.bsky.social
Solving the Myxidium rhodei (Myxozoa) puzzle: insights into its phylogeny and host specificity in Cypriniformes
doi.org/10.1051/para...
December 15, 2024 at 2:33 PM
piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social
Myxozoa: tajemnicza grupa organizmów, długo uważana za "pierwotniaki", bo przez większą część cyklu życiowego są jednokomórkowe. Okazały się jednak zwierzętami, a konkretnie – parzydełkowcami. Niektóre są pasożytami ssaków lądowych (tu wątek polski).
eksperymentmyslowy.pl/2023/05/28/f...
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
ginnythebear.bsky.social
Myxozoa 0001 was once a ███████ from █████████. She was mutated by a Scorned that didn't finish the job. She was taken to a facility where she was tested on (including the mask, which allows her now lungless body to breathe) and woke up without the memories of her past.
February 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
tedpavlic.bsky.social
Somehow I missed this in 2020 (something else going on?), but there is a cnidarian that has lost ability for aerobic respiration. That's going to make other animals jelly-ous. 🧪

"A cnidarian parasite of salmon (Myxozoa: Henneguya) lacks a mitochondrial genome" | PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
A cnidarian parasite of salmon (Myxozoa: Henneguya) lacks a mitochondrial genome | PNAS
Although aerobic respiration is a hallmark of eukaryotes, a few unicellular lineages, growing in hypoxic environments, have secondarily lost this a...
www.pnas.org
June 25, 2024 at 4:25 PM
thibautbrunet.bsky.social
Myxozoa are a good example I think: their multicellular form is much simplified compared to ancestral cnidarians. (The subjectivity of quantifying complexity is always a bit of an issue admittedly!)
May 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
marinespecies.bsky.social
Introducing the World List of Myxozoa

marinespecies.org/news.php?p=s...
Introducing the World List of Myxozoa
Today is the launch day for the World List of Myxozoa, a Global Species Database under the umbrella of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).
marinespecies.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
voicelabyrinth.bsky.social
Mixi!!!! My tiny parasite girl :]
She's based loosely on Myxozoa

#OC
Mixi has short light blue hair in a bob cut. She has a red and orange jellyfish cloche on her head. She is wearing a white and light indigo dress with a darker blue petticoat that has eight orange buttons tied together with four strings. Her crinoline is translucent beige and orange and resembles a jellyfish bell. Falling under her bob are four long strands of hair and eight jellyfish-like tentacles
May 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
chilluminatipod.fm
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January 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
olbluebones.bsky.social
I got back into creating with these #mandala type pieces. They are inspired by my love of #biology and creatures. This piece is made up of animals micro-small. From center: #myxozoa, #plankton, ticks, #tardigrades, fleas, ants, #fish, and #frogs!

#art #animalia #microbiology #illustration
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
parasitejournal.bsky.social
Morphological and molecular characterization of myxobolids (Cnidaria, Myxozoa) infecting cypriniforms (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula
[2019 🧪]
doi.org/10.1051/para...
Abstract The Iberian Peninsula provides a unique freshwater ecosystem for native and endemic cypriniforms to thrive. Despite cypriniforms being hosts to multiple myxobolids worldwide, little research has been performed in this geographic location. In this study, the examination of three Iberian endemic cypriniforms showed that myxosporean richness in the Iberian Peninsula is underestimated, with three new and one known myxobolid species being reported based on morphological and molecular data (SSU). Myxobolus arcasii n. sp. is described from the kidney and gonads of the “bermejuela” Achondrostoma arcasii, M. duriensis n. sp. from the gills of the Northern straight-mouth nase Pseudochondrostoma duriense, and Thelohanellus paludicus n. sp. from the intestine of the Southern Iberian spined-loach Cobitis paludica. Myxobolus pseudodispar Gorbunova, 1936 is further reported from several organs of P. duriense, and from the spleen of A. arcasii. The occurrence of M. pseudodispar in endemic Iberian species reveals that host-shift followed its co-introduction with central European leuciscids into this geographic location. Several other myxobolids originally described from barbels in central Europe have also been reported from the Iberian endemic cypriniform Luciobarbus bocagei. Nonetheless, except for M. musculi, the identification of these myxobolids in L. bocagei is here shown to be dubious and require molecular confirmation. Phylogenetic analyses reveal M. arcasii n. sp. and M. duriensis n. sp. clustering within different lineages of leuciscid-infecting species, showing that myxobolids entered Leuciscidae as hosts multiple times during their evolution. Constituting the first myxobolid reported from the subfamily Cobitinae, Thelohanellus paludicus n. sp. stands alone in the tree topology.
January 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
frommlab.bsky.social
What are those? Myxozoa?
November 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
haruspex.bsky.social
Best cnidarians!
These jellies are so much more wholesome than the wicked Myxozoa, 3 times voted Worst Cnidarian™️ by a panel of fish.
The Protozoa have beef too:
Myxozoa fake like Protozoa in fish and look like a *different* parasite in oligochaete worms.
It took DNA to link stages as one beastie.
A myxozoan parasite (presumed Ortholineidae), faking like an ameba in the kidney tubule of a catfish. The parasite is indicated with a yellow arrow and “These assholes”.
June 2, 2023 at 4:32 PM
ginnythebear.bsky.social
Formerly adopted by Myxozoa, Kora grew up in a caring and loving family, training her immense powers with a sense of responsibility. Still a merry prankster, she kept her youthful energy, determined to be good where the First Mother, her biological mother, went evil. Here, she is an adult.
February 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
lexistenti.al
myxozoa are so weird, they're microscopic animals that have evolved to lose multicellular traits like nervous systems and muscles and in one known case even mitochondria, meaning it doesn't even metabolize using oxygen
January 19, 2024 at 12:23 PM
janetharriett.bsky.social
*looks up "myxozoa"*
👀
You have my attention.
June 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
tmkeesey.bsky.social
I rank them second after Myxozoa.
August 30, 2024 at 2:09 AM