Helicosporidium

Helicosporidium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Viridiplantae
Phylum:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Trebouxiophyceae
Genus:	Helicosporidium; Keilin, 1921
Species
	H. sp. ex Simulium jonesii; H. sp. ex Cyrtobagous salviniae;

In taxonomy, Helicosporidium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Trebouxiophyceae.^[2]^[3] It is an insect gut parasite, and a close relative of Prototheca.^[4]

References

^ Keilin, D. (1921). On the life history of Helicosporidium parasiticum n. g. sp., a new species of protist parasite in the larvae of Dashelaea obscura Winn (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and in some other arthropods. Parasitology 13: 97-113.
^ Tartar, A., Boucias, D. G., Becnel, J. J., and Adams, B. J. (2003) Comparison of plastid 16S rRNA (rrn 16) genes from Helicosporidium spp.: evidence supporting the reclassification of Helicosporidia as green algae (Chlorophyta). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53, 1719–1723.
^ See the NCBI webpage on Helicosporidium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective (2003), p. 46