C. elegans as a new tractable host to study infections by animal pathogenic oomycetes
Fig 2
Caenorhabditis elegans infection by Myzocytiopsis humicola.
(A) Cartoon describing the oomycete life cycle within nematodes. (B) Images show different stages of the infection process from pathogen attachment (left panel, arrowhead marks M. humicola adhesive bud attached to the nematode mouth) to early hyphal growth (middle panel, pathogen is visualised in red by 18S FISH), to development of “pearl-like” sporangia in the head region (right). (C) Late infection phenotype at the whole animal level with pathogen sporangia now developed throughout the body. Scale bars are 20 μm in B and 100 μm in C.