• 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 ...
    • The infection cycle of Marteilia pararefringens in blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, in a heliothermic marine oyster lagoon in Norway. 

      Bøgwald, Mats; Skår, Cecilie Kristin; Karlsbakk, Egil Erlingsson; Alfjorden, Anders; Feist, Stephen W.; Bass, David; Mortensen, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Agapollen is a traditional heliothermic marine oyster lagoon in western Norway, representing the northernmost site of any Marteilia sp. protists detected in Europe. The semi-closed lagoon is a unique site to study the life ...
    • 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 ...