Microsporidia

Germinating microsporidium

The polar filament extrudes from the cell body, ejecting the sporoplasm containing the nucleus and other organelles into the host cell. In this case, the polar filament is extruded on a slide, not into a host cell.  Photo courtesy of SIP.






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