About the Authors
- Andrea Valigurová
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* E-mail: andreav@sci.muni.cz
Affiliation Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
- Gita G. Paskerova
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Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
- Andrei Diakin
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Affiliation Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
- Magdaléna Kováčiková
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Affiliation Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
- Timur G. Simdyanov
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Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory 1–12, Moscow, 119234, Russian Federation
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AV. Performed the experiments: AV. Analyzed the data: AV GGP AD MK TGS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV GGP AD MK TGS. Wrote the paper: AV. Discovered Eleutheroschizon duboscqi in Scoloplos armiger from the White Sea and shared her findings with other authors for further collaboration, and contributed considerably to manuscript writing: GGP. Performed field sampling: AV GGP AD TGS. Contributed to the study design: GGP AD TGS. Performed light and electron microscopic analyses: AV GGP AD MK TGS. Performed CLSM analyses: AV. Assisted in sample processing for CLSM: MK. Reviewed and edited the manuscript, and approved its final version: AV GGP AD MK TGS.