Publications

protomagalhaensia richardsoni n. sp. (apicomplexa: eugregarinida: blabericolidae): a new gregarine parasitizing the giant lobster cockroach, henschoutedenia flexivitta (dictyoptera: blaberidae).	protomagalhaensia richardsoni n. sp. (apicomplexa: eugregarinida: blabericolidae) is described from the giant lobster cockroach, henschoutedenia flexivitta (dictyoptera: blattaria: blaberidae: oxyhaloinae: nauphoetini). oocysts within the genus are dolioform with polar plates. those of protomagalhaensia granulosae, protomagalhaensia wolfi, and protomagalhaensia blaberae possess distinct apical spines and a sagittal depression that are absent or reduced in p. richardsoni and protomagalhaensia cer ...	2013	23659501
metronidazole induces gametocytogenesis in gregarine associations maintained in vitro.	abstract gametocytogenesis was induced in mature associations of protomagalhaensia wolfi and protomagalhaensia blaberae maintained in vitro by inclusion of metronidazole in the culture medium. the response is neither strictly dosage dependent nor uniform across gregarine species. we hypothesize that metronidazole induces gregarine gametocytogenesis by disrupting puf2 proteins responsible for the translational control of sexual development and gametocystogenesis in apicomplexans.	2012	22263562