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Helicosporidium
| Helicosporidium | |
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| Helicosporidium under a light microscope | |
Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
| Order: | Chlorellales |
| Family: | Chlorellaceae |
| Genus: | Helicosporidium Keilin, 1921[1] |
| Species | |
Helicosporidium is a genus of colorless, pathogenic algae in the class Trebouxiophyceae of the green algae.[2][3] It is a parasite found in the gut of insects, and a close relative of Prototheca.[4]
- ^ Keilin, D. (1921). On the life history of Helicosporidium parasiticum n. g. sp., a new species of protist parasite in the larvae of Dashelaea obscura Winn (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and in some other arthropods. Parasitology 13: 97-113.
- ^ Tartar, A.; Boucias, D. G.; Becnel, J. J.; Adams, B. J. (2003). "Comparison of plastid 16S rRNA (Rrn16) genes from Helicosporidium SPP.: Evidence supporting the reclassification of Helicosporidia as green algae (Chlorophyta)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (6): 1719–1723. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02559-0. PMID 14657099.
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Helicosporidium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective (2003), p. 46
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