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Science 23 September 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3743, pp. 1529 - 1531
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3743.1529
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Sporulation of Minchinia nelsoni (Haplosporida, Haplosporidiidae) in Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin)

John A. Couch 1, C. Austin Farley 1, and Aaron Rosenfield 1

1 U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Oxford, Maryland

Minchinia nelsoni, which Haskin, Stauber, and Mackin found in connective tissue and-digestive diverticula of the American oyster, is characterized by a distinct peripheral endosome in its plasmodial and spore nuclei and by spores of unique dimension (7.5 by 5.4 µ) This species is believed to be the etiologic agent, formerly reported as "MSX," responsible for extensive oyster mortalities along the Middle Atlantic Coast.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Fluorescent-Antibody Studies of Haplosporidian Parasites of Oysters in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
J. H. Barrow Jr. and B. C. Taylor (1966)
Science 153, 1531-1533
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