• Cosmopolitan Distribution of Endozoicomonas-Like Organisms and Other Intracellular Microcolonies of Bacteria Causing Infection in Marine Mollusks 

      Cano, Irene; Ryder, David; Webb, Steve C.; Jones, Brian J.; Brosnahan, Cara L.; Carrasco, Noelia; Bodinier, Barbara; Furones, Dolors; Pretto, Tobia; Carella, Francesca; Chollet, Bruno; Arzul, Isabelle; Cheslett, Deborah; Collins, Evelyn; Lohrmann, Karin B.; Valdivia, Ana L.; Ward, Georgia; Carballal, María J.; Villalba, Antonio; Marigómez, Ionan; Mortensen, Stein; Christison, Kevin; Kevin, Wakeman C.; Bustos, Eduardo; Christie, Lyndsay; Green, Matthew; Feist, Stephen W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Intracellular microcolonies of bacteria (IMC), in some cases developing large extracellular cysts (bacterial aggregates), infecting primarily gill and digestive gland, have been historically reported in a wide diversity ...
    • Improved high throughput protocol for targeting eukaryotic symbionts in metazoan and eDNA samples 

      Minardi, Diana; Ryder, David; del Campo, Javier; Garcia Fonseca, Vera; Kerr, Rose; Mortensen, Stein; Pallavicini, Alberto; Bass, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Eukaryote symbionts of animals are major drivers of ecosystems not only because of their diversity and host interactions from variable pathogenicity but also through different key roles such as commensalism and to different ...
    • Marteilia refringens and Marteilia pararefringens sp. nov. are distinct parasites of bivalves and have different European distributions 

      Kerr, Rose C.; Ward, Georgia M.; Stentiford, Grant D.; Alfjorden, Anders; Mortensen, Stein; Bignell, John P.; Feist, Stephen W.; Villalba, Antonio; Carballal, María J.; Cao, Asun; Arzul, Isabelle; Ryder, David; Bass, David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Marteilia refringens causes marteiliosis in oysters, mussels and other bivalve molluscs. This parasite previously comprised two species, M. refringens and Marteilia maurini, which were synonymized in 2007 and subsequently ...