Contents 1 An introduction to myxozoan evolution, ecology and development Beth Okamura, Alexander Gruhl, Jerri L. Bartholomew Part I: Origins, Evolutionary Trends and Diversification 2 Myxozoan affinities and route to endoparasitism Beth Okamura and Alexander Gruhl 3 Cnidarian origins of the Myxozoa Beth Okamura, Alexander Gruhl and Abigail J. Reft 4 Adaptive radiation and evolution within the Myxozoa Ivan Fiala, Pavla Bartosová-Sojková, Beth Okamura, Hanna Hartikainen 5 Classification and phylogenetics of Myxozoa Ivan Fiala, Pavla Bartosová-Sojková, Christopher M. Whipps 6 Approaches for characterizing myxozoan species Stephen D. Atkinson, Pavla Bartosová-Sojková, Christopher M. Whipps, Jerri L. Bartholomew 7 Myxozoans exploiting homeotherms Sascha L. Hallett, Stephen D.
Atkinson, Jerri L. Bartholomew, Csaba Székely Part II: Development and Life Cycles 8 Cellular processes in myxozoans Stephen W. Feist, David J. Morris, Gema Alama-Bermejo and Astrid S. Holzer 9 Tissue characteristics and development in Myxozoa Alexander Gruhl and Beth Okamura 10 Myxozoan life cycles: practical approaches and insights Edit Eszterbauer, Stephen Atkinson, Arik Diamant, David Morris, Mansour El-Matbouli, Hanna Hartikainen Part III: Host-Parasite Interactions 11 Ecology and evolution of malacosporean-bryozoan interactions Hanna Hartikainen and Beth Okamura 12 Annelid-myxosporean interactions Julie D. Alexander, Billie L Kerans, Mansour El-Matbouli, Sascha L. Hallett and Lori Stevens 13 Transmission of myxozoans to vertebrate hosts Dennis M. Kallert, Daniel S.
Grabner, Hiroshi Yokoyama, Mansour El-Matbouli, Edit Eszterbauer 14 Fish immune responses to Myxozoa Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla, Heike Schmidt-Posthaus, Thomas Wahli, Jason W. Holland, Chris J. Secombes 15 Host and environmental influences on development of disease Heike Schmidt-Posthaus, Thomas Wahli 16 Specificity of infection sites in vertebrate hosts Kálmán Molnár and Edit Eszterbauer Part IV: Disease Ecology 17 Comparative epidemiology of myxozoan diseases Inês Fontes, Sascha L. Hallett, and Tor Atle Mo 18 Myxozoans on the move: dispersal modes, exotic species and emerging diseases Sascha L. Hallett, Ashlie Hartigan and Stephen D. Atkinson 19 Modeling the effects of climate change on disease severity: A case study of Ceratonova (syn Ceratomyxa ) shasta in the Klamath River R. Adam Ray, Julie D. Alexander, Patrick De Leenheer and Jerri L.
Bartholomew 20 Risk assessments and approaches for evaluating myxozoan disease impacts Jerri L. Bartholomew and Billie Kerans 21 Mitigating myxozoan disease impacts on wild fish populations Simon R.M. Jones, Jerri L. Bartholomew, Jin Yong Zhang.