About this volume The phylum Apicomplexa is characterized by the
unique cell organisation of the zoites, the infective stages of
unicellular parasites previously designated as Sporozoa.
Apicomplexa includes Coccidian and Hematozoa well known for human
and veterinary diseases they cause, such as malaria, toxoplasmosis,
babesiosis, coccidiosis, and the large group of Gregarines, the
early branching Apicomplexa. Gregarines are parasite of
invertebrates and urochordates and they performed an extraordinary
radiation from the marine and terrestrial hosts known from the
Cambrian biodiversity explosion. After the basic publication in the
Trait de Zoologie by Grass in 1953, this second edition updates the
knowledge with information provided by new technologies such as
electron microscopy, biochemistry and molecular biology and to
enlighten their high diversity of adaptation to invertebrate hosts
living in a diversity of biotopes. The extracellular development of
Gregarines, the considerable diversification of their cell cortex,
their wide distribution in Annelids, Crustaceans, Echinoderms,
Myriapods or Insects with about hundred thousands of species
contribute to the understanding of many biological aspects of the
pathogenic Apicomplexa. Since 1953, taxonomical reviews on
Gregarines were published in the Illustrated Guide of Protozoa. In
this supplement, there is a special emphasis on the hosts. About
the Editors Isabelle Desportes, Fellow of the Mus um National d
Histoire Naturelle, Paris, is known for her work on a wide range of
unicellular parasites: Gregarines, Microsporidia, Haplosporidia,
Paramyxidia, Myxosporidia. She is the author of chapters on the
Phylum Apicomplexa (co-author E. Vivier) and the Phylum Paramyxa
(co-author F. O. Perkins) in the "Handbook of Protoctists, " eds.
Margulis, Corliss, Melkonian and Chapman, Jones and Bartlett Publ.,
1989 and "The Biology of Microsporidia." in: "Cryptosporidiosis and
Microsporidiosis, " eds. Schmidt A. & Petry F., Karger AG,
2000. She was a member of the Nominating Committee of the
International Society of Protistologists and of the Editorial board
of the European "Journal of Protistology, " and "Acta
Protozoologica." Joseph Schr vel is emeritus professor at the Mus
um National d Histoire Naturelle, Paris . After his PhD on the
biology and electron microscopy of the Gregarines of Polychaetes,
he extended his studies on cell biology and biochemistry of other
Apicomplexa like Plasmodium the causative agent of malaria,
Babesia, different unicellular eukaryotes (Trypanosoma) and
mammalian (cardiac and sperm) cells. He was member of the editorial
board of: "Biology of the Cell" (Editor-in-Chief), "Parasitology
Research, European Journal of Protozoology, Journal of
Ultrastructure Research and the Malarial Journal." In 1993, he
published The Gregarines (co- author M.Philippe) in "Parasite
Protozoa," ed. Krier J, volume 4, Academic Press.
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