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    Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed...
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    Apicomplexa (redirect from Apicomplexan)
    host cells during the parasitic stages of the Apicomplexan life cycle. Apicomplexa have complex life cycles, involving several stages and typically undergoing...
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    In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins...
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    patients, so it is no longer in use. List of parasites (human) Apicomplexan life cycle Gametocyte Host (biology) Coatney, G. Robert; Collins, William...
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  • the liver, initiating a new cycle. Balantidium coli is the causative agent of balantidiasis. In the apicomplexan life cycle the trophozoite undergoes schizogony...
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    between larva and imago (the adult stage) Protozoan life cycle stages Apicomplexan life cycle Algal life cycle stages: Codiolum-phase Conchocelis-phase Marine...
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    eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects. The life cycles of Plasmodium species involve development in a blood-feeding insect host...
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    stage in the life cycle. In addition, Vitrella produces vaucheriaxanthin. Chrompodellids are the closest living relatives of the apicomplexan parasites,...
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  • (now Apicomplexa, protists). See also sporozoite, a stage in the apicomplexan life cycle This disambiguation page lists biology articles associated with...
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    spore-forming, single-celled obligate intracellular parasites belonging to the apicomplexan class Conoidasida. As obligate intracellular parasites, they must live...
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  • Besnoitia is a genus of apicomplexan parasites. The life cycle of many of the species in this genus are not known. The life cycle may be complex with various...
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  • parasite or holoparasite is a parasitic organism that cannot complete its life-cycle without exploiting a suitable host. If an obligate parasite cannot obtain...
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    free-living alveolates, unicellular flagellates related to dinoflagellates, apicomplexans and ciliates. They are predators of other small eukaryotes, found in...
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    Cryptosporidium, sometimes called crypto, is an apicomplexan genus of alveolates which are parasites that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal...
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    The Aconoidasida are a class of apicomplexan parasites created by Mehlhorn et al in 1980. Organisms in this class bear a tip at one end of their outer...
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    Plasmodium cynomolgi is an apicomplexan parasite that infects mosquitoes and Asian Old World monkeys. In recent years, a number of natural infections of...
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    babesiosis, a malaria-like disease which also causes fever and hemolysis. The life cycle of B. microti includes human red blood cells and is an important transfusion-transmitted...
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    Meiosis (category Cell cycle)
    reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ cells and apicomplexans in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, the sperm...
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    The gregarines are a group of Apicomplexan alveolates, classified as the Gregarinasina or Gregarinia. The large (roughly half a millimeter) parasites inhabit...
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    contain two nuclei: a macronucleus and a micronucleus. The schizont of apicomplexan parasites is a form of a coenocyte (i.e. a plasmodium in the general...
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    some chrysophytes, some xanthophytes, eustigmatophytes Alveolata: some apicomplexans (gametes) Rhizaria: some radiolarians (probably gametes), foraminiferans...
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    Babesia (section Life cycle)
    Babesia, also called Nuttallia, is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks. Originally discovered by the Romanian...
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  • Atoxoplasma, it is a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. Apicomplexans are obligate intracellular parasites that typically invade blood cells...
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    invertebrate animals. In Neotropical forests, environmental DNA from the apicomplexan gregarines dominates protist diversity. Parasitic protists represent...
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  • organism in the superphylum Alveolata. It is of interest in the study of apicomplexan parasites, specifically their evolution and accordingly, their unique...
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  • transferred it to the new genus Apicystis on the basis of morphology and life cycle. This protozoan was found in Canada in overwintering queens and in males...
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    Eimeria (section Life cycle)
    Eimeria is a genus of apicomplexan parasites that includes various species capable of causing the disease coccidiosis in animals such as cattle, poultry...
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    Berriman M, Pain A, Wastling JM (2012). "Comparative Genomics of the Apicomplexan Parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia Differing...
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    apicomplexans (=Sporozoa) in a well-supported clade, the alveolates. The closest relatives to dinokaryotic dinoflagellates appear to be apicomplexans...
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    Protozoa (section Life cycle)
    such as the ciliates, dinoflagellates, foraminifera, and the parasitic apicomplexans, which were moved to other groups such as Alveolata and Stramenopiles...
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