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SUMMARY:Covert cnidarians: cryptic lives of the endoparasitic Myxozoa - Pr
 of Beth Okamura\, Natural History Museum
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CONTACT:Ross Waller
DESCRIPTION:Myxozoans are a diverse clade of endoparasites with complex li
 fe cycles and are the causative agents of some devastating fish diseases. 
 Their phylogenetic placement was long obscure due to extreme morphological
  simplification and rapid evolution\, but they are now established as a ra
 diation of endoparasitic cnidarians that exploit freshwater\, marine and t
 errestrial hosts. I will review diversity\, lifestyles\, and morphological
  simplification that characterise these generally unfamiliar animals and t
 hen present insights on how myxozoans exploit their invertebrate hosts and
  disperse to colonise new freshwater environments. By so revealing the cry
 ptic lives of myxozoans we can appreciate how particular cnidarian traits 
 may have facilitated and promoted this remarkable endoparasitic radiation.
LOCATION:Lecture Theater\, Department of Pathology\, Tennis Court Road
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